Conversations that are all about change powered by women—how we do it, why we do it, what it's like, and what happens as a result. Hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges, this is the place where we explore the messy, unfinished business that lives in our heads—and is fueled by our hearts. We keep it real, refuse to boil it down, and serve it up as it is—unscripted, unedited, and unapologetic. We believe you can handle us. Lael Couper Jepson is the founder of SheChanges, a strategic outpo ...
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S5:E4 On Her Mind — A Conversation Between Lael + Jen
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Lael Couper Jepson as she dives into another conversation this season that centers on this one central question: What's on her mind?Episode 4 features a conversation between Lael and Jen Dean and it's rollicking good ride covering loads of topics that rarely reach the light of day between women—so you're welcome to overhear it. In the spirit of bra…
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S5E3: On Her Mind — A Conversation Between Lael + Michelle
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Lael Couper Jepson as she dives into another conversation this season that centers on this one central question: What's on her mind?More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at the world through our eyes. Each episode features a different woman who brings three "threads" (or t…
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S5:E2: On Her Mind — A Conversation Between Lael + May
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Here's your chance to hear what's on her mind.Join Lael Couper Jepson on this season on An Unscripted Woman as she dives into thirteen intimate conversations with fascinating women centered on the one question: What's on her mind?More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at th…
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S5E1 On Her Mind — A Conversation Between Lael + Megan
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Here's your chance to hear what's on her mind.Join Lael Couper Jepson on this season on An Unscripted Woman as she dives into thirteen intimate conversations with fascinating women centered on that one question: What's on her mind? More than an interview, this offers listeners the chance to "overhear" a conversation between two women as we look at …
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Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. This live storytelling evening, hosted annually by Lael of SheChanges, features the stories of five women. The theme for this year is "Wellspring". In this story, Lael explores the question of how you get somewhere when you don't know…
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S4E8: SheSpeaks 2019 — Kayla Lewis
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Kayla Lewis shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening, hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges, the stories of five women were featured speaking to the theme of "Wellspring". Kayla's deeply personal story considers the greater levels of power that can be fou…
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Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. The theme of this live annual storytelling evening, hosted by Lael of SheChanges and featuring the stories of women, is "Wellspring". This story of Lael's explores what it means to be naked—literally and figuratively—and how we can us…
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S4E6: SheSpeaks 2019 — Gemma Dreher
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Gemma shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges and featuring the stories of women, Gemma's deeply personal story on stage explores what it looks like to call on the Motherline and tap into the ancient, sacred lineage …
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Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. This live storytelling evening featuring the stories of five women is hosted by Lael who is the emcee of the event. The theme for this SheSpeaks is "Wellspring" and in this story, Lael talks about the wisdom that lives deep down insid…
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S4E4: SheSpeaks 2019 — Benedita Zalabantu
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Benedita Zalabantu shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Benedita's deeply personal story explores what it means to love yourself—truly and fully. She shines a light on the possibility of feeling comfortable in our own skin w…
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Lael Couper Jepson shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Lael further weaves the theme of "Wellspring" throughout the five speakers, offering this story about how we are taught to "bury the girl"—an everything she represents—…
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S4E2: SheSpeaks 2019 — Joanna Horton McPherson
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Joanna Horton McPherson takes the stage at SheSpeaks 2019, a two-day women's storytelling event in Portland, Maine hosted by Lael Couper Jepson of SheChanges.Joanna's story, entitled Going into the Layers, explores what it looks like to make space for truth to emerge when we can't plan what will happen next. This deeply personal story mines beneath…
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S4E1: SheSpeaks 2019 — Lael Couper Jepson
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Lael Couper Jepson sets the stage at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine for SheSpeaks 2019—two nights of women's storytelling centered on the theme of "Wellspring". In this first story of the evening, Lael shines a light on what she's learned about how to get in to the arena of what you don't know you don't know—and why that's important.FMI w…
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Kat Joyce shares a *story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2019 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. In this live storytelling evening featuring the stories of women, Kat's deeply personal story on stage explores what it would be like if we were to take off all the costumes and the armor we've been wearing. She considers what is left when we…
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Intro to Season 5: On Her Mind
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Season 5 of the Unscripted Woman podcast will be released in Summer 2023, and I'm really excited about it. It's called On Her Mind: Conversations with Thinking Women Feeling Our Way ForwardMy aim is to have these be like those conversations you love overhearing in airport lounges or plane terminals...the ones you move a little closer to because the…
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Episode #6 Why The Chicken Crossed The Road
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Originally aired in 2016, this podcast features Lael Couper Jepson reading an excerpt from her book: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer and riffing more specifically on what she's learned about doing the dance of masculine and feminine energy in a woman's body. It's about assuming responsibility for all of who we are and inhabiting ourselves more …
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S3E6: The Making of My Ignite Book — It's Officially Out + Welcome to the Fire
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Lael Couper Jepson's latest book, Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire, was released on November 13, 2019. Part heat-seeking memoir and part fiery missive, Ignite is what it looks like when a woman taps into her power with her whole heart and unapologetically leads with all of who she is—without asking for permission or pausing to to explain why. Come …
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Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire — Welcome to the Fire
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Lael Couper Jepson's latest book, Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire, was released on November 13, 2019. Part heat-seeking memoir and part fiery missive, Ignite is what it looks like when a woman taps into her power with her whole heart and unapologetically leads with all of who she is—without asking for permission or pausing to to explain why. Come …
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S2E10: Nadine Farag at SheSpeaks 2018 —The Vessel of Self
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Nadine Farag shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. As the final speaker of the first night of this annual women's storytelling evening hosted by SheChanges, Nadine's story is about her own personal revolution—one that had her examine the contractions that lie within herself, understand who …
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Lael Couper Jepson tells a story on stage at her annual women's storytelling series, SheSpeaks, in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine.In this story, Lael shares a story about how sometimes the real value of something is hidden inside a crusty layer of shit. She speaks about her experiment to see if she could value and appreci…
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S2E8: Lyn Carter at SheSpeaks 2018 — Women's Ways of Knowing
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Lyn Carter shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. Building off an ancient story of the Fox and The Star, Lyn's story at this this annual women's storytelling evening, hosted by SheChanges, is about knowing who we are, and where we came from so that we might re-member all the pieces of oursel…
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Lael Couper Jepson tells a story on stage at her annual women's storytelling series, SheSpeaks, in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine.Using the Game Of Life board game as a metaphor, Lael talks about the rules we are taught about life—the ones that are generally not ours, nor were they designed with us in mind—only benefit th…
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S2E6: Corinne Mockler at SheSpeaks 2018 — Water Witching
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Corinne shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. The story Corinne tells at this this annual women's storytelling evening, hosted by SheChanges, plays at the intersections of motherhood, identity, and creativity. Her story is entitled: Water Witching."For all I gained by becoming a mother, the…
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Lael Couper Jepson tells a story on stage at her annual women's storytelling series, SheSpeaks, in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine. In this story, Lael talks about the "red light moments" of life when the dashboard alerts you something is amiss, and how these are the moments of the unknown where women start to get really r…
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S2E4: Louisa Irele at SheSpeaks 2018 - My Queendom
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Louisa Irele shares her story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. Louisa's story at this annual women's storytelling evening, hosted by SheChanges, is about learning to love yourself and tell yourself that you belong—you deserve to be here—as a means of decide how to be in the world. Especially when you…
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Lael Couper Jepson tells a story on stage at her annual women's storytelling series, SheSpeaks, in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine. In this story, Lael speaks to the power of making art as a means to figure herself out: "I just keep making shit as I go—sometimes it's good shit, and sometimes it's bad shit—but that's how I …
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S2E2: Anne Morin at SheSpeaks 2018 — Whispers Under The Words
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Anne Morin shares a story on stage at SheSpeaks in December 2018 at One Longfellow Square, Portland, Maine. As the first speaker of this annual women's storytelling evening, hosted by SheChanges, Anne brought the full house to its feet with her story: Whispers Under The Words."After years and years of listening to other people's subtext, and hearin…
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An excerpt from Lael Couper Jepson at SheSpeaks 2018, sharing a story at her women's storytelling series at One Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine. This story bit frames the overall theme for the storytelling series: Sovereign. "Being sovereign for me, now, isn't about being possessed...it's about being in FULL possession of everything I am, ever…
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S1E14: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer — A House On Fire, Naked Truth + Staying Rooted
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In this episode of An Unscripted Woman, I weave together some stories and riff on the themes of the urgency of our times, and how it is calling many of us to speak more clearly (plainly) and get naked with our truth —even if it makes us uncomfortable, is inconvenient, or unpopular. Even if you feel vulnerable and not ready. Even if you're wondering…
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A sneak peak, advance sampling of a chapter from Lael Couper Jepson's second book before it was released as Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire in November of 2019. The original manuscript title was Witch Ways, and this is how it began before it was buffed and polished with revisions, rewrites and many edits. This is how I Lael, creatively-speaking. I…
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E3S4: The Making of My Ignite Book — Witch Brings Us To You
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A sneak peak, advance sampling of a chapter from Lael Couper Jepson's second book before it was released as Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire in November of 2019. The original manuscript title was Witch Ways, and this is how it began before it was buffed and polished with revisions, rewrites and many edits. This is how I Lael, creatively-speaking. I…
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E3S3: The Making of My Ignite Book – The Other Way
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An early release, sneaky sampling of a chapter from Lael Couper Jepson's second book, which began as Witch Ways and eventually morphed into Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire and was published in November 2019. This is how it began before the buffing and polishing of re-writes and editing... And THIS CHAPTER, in particular, was where I finally got at…
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Another bite-sized, early taste of Lael Couper Jepson's second book...which ultimately morphed into the title Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire and published in November 2019. Go ahead, give it a listen.FMI: check out the story behind how this book is super-powered by women and the SheChanges community https://www.gofundme.com/shechanges-book-2-powe…
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This is how a book is born through me...I start sharing the chapters well before the manuscript is finalized. It's how I Lael, creatively-speaking. As you'll soon discover, the book title eventually morphed from Witch Ways to Ignite: Lighting the Leader Fire, and was released in November 2019. A sneak-peak, advance taste of Lael Couper Jepson's sec…
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S1E13: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer - Truth In Anger
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In this episode, I shine a light on the very thing we are trained not to look at in ourselves as women: Anger. And in doing so, my invitation is a call to let it out more, to listen to it, and to actually leverage it as rocket fuel to create change, rather than have it stew and sour inside us creating shame and ultimately disconnection and dis-ease…
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S1E12: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer - Naked Cake Woman
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This episode explores what lives inside each of — our essence — and is an invitation to live from that place with more intention. You'll hear about many of my stories that finally had me grab onto, own, and ultimately embody the part of me I had feared most. The part people could see and sense the minute they met me, but the part I felt compelled t…
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S1E11: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer - One Of These Is Not Like The Other
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This episode examines how often many of us feel alone when we're surrounded by a crowd of people — like you're the only one that thinks and feels a certain way, and everyone else has it "together" and "figured out". It also examines the shame that can bubble up inside ourselves in those situations("what's wrong with you!?") that can have us withdra…
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S1E10: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer — Naturally Striving
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This episode explores the default so many of us have around "bearing down" on something we want to make happen — which means reckoning with our love affair of control, being busy, moving fast, and being "productive". At the core of it, there is an invitation to become more efficient with how we move through life — balancing periods of pushing with …
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S1E9: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer - Owning What's Mine
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This episode is about my long-overdue reclamation of a part of myself that was both my greatest strength and secret shame: my competitive spirit. In this chapter, I unpack all the rules that had me moving carefully — as if by a script — and holding myself full self back. But more than that, this is a story about alchemy — and how choosing to consci…
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S1E8: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer — Stands With A Fist
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This episode unpacks my own story of competition, and explores how it tends to get a bad rap among women. It also looks at how our competitive spirit (ambition, drive, intensity, desire) can be a thin and tricky line to walk as women — triggering us to dampen, dumb down, or diminish ("play small" or "shrink") what is sometimes our greatest strength…
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S1E7: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer - Mea Culpa
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This is the first chapter that I really dig into the stories of masculine energy and my experience of it as a woman. In doing so, I also explore how I wasn't able to even get to that conversation with myself until I really started to sit with my identity as a woman and how I had essentially dissociated from from that until my first pregnancy "outte…
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S1E6: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer— Why The Chicken Crossed The Road
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This episode gets at the heart of what I mean when I say "luminous living" — it's about allowing ourselves to live the fullest RANGE of who we are, and in doing so amping up our wattage so that we are able to shine more brightly in the world. I also spend time exploring the value of "mustering" as a means to both honor and ready ourselves for makin…
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S1E5: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer— Sense-Making —> Masculine & Feminine Bearings
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In this episode, I do my damnedest to drill down to the nitty gritty details of defining the masculine and the feminine for myself. In the process, I highlight why that process/conversation is so hard to have — with ourselves AND with others — and how easy it is to avoid it all together. I also shine a light on why I see it as one of the most centr…
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S1E4: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer—Gathering Myself
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This episode looks at the ways we can SEE ourselves more clearly as women — and how the missing pieces of our self perception can inadvertently contribute to dimming our own lights and not showing up fully as we are. Embedded in this episode is an invitation to actively contribute our own visibility — first to ourselves, and then to each other — as…
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S1E3: Unscripted: A Women's Living Prayer— My Story Of Uprooting
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This episode explores the hidden gems that lurk in the messy detritus of a life - and invites readers to put on some mud boots and dig in to the discomfort that can so easily be stepped over. At the heart of this topic is a call to examine all the data points inside ourselves — the good, the bad, and the often the ugly — as a means to shine a light…
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S1E2: Unscripted: A Woman's Living Prayer
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This is Episode #2 of kickoff season for my podcast, An Unscripted Woman. After setting the stage for this latest creative endeavor of mine (hint: it's my response to the request I hear so often: When will the audio version of your book be released?), I jump right in by reading the first chapter (Unscripted) of my book Unscripted: A Woman's Living …
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S1E1: Unscripted: A Women's Living Prayer— An Invocation
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This is the kickoff episode for my podcast, An Unscripted Woman. After setting the stage for this latest creative endeavor of mine (hint: it's my response to the request I hear so often: When will the audio version of your book be released?), I jump right in by reading the beginning chapter (An Invocation) of my book Unscripted: A Woman's Living Pr…
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