An Unscripted Woman Podcast

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 braiding three strands together to create some creative tension and play at the intersections of things, Jen brings in these three topics that are on her mind these days: SEEING (ourselves and each other) FREEDOM (breaking from convention, unschooling ourselves) COLLECTIVE WISDOM (tapping into the vegas nerve of humanity) —We talk about moving into the crone phase of our lives and how that has sharpened and deepened our vision. —We talk about those moments we have a foot in this world and a foot out of it—as we access our wisdom, play with our power, hone our intuition, and honor our instincts. —We talk about time—bending it, moving through it, our old/new st

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 topics) her brain keeps braiding over and over again to make meaning in our world. We look at intersections, contradictions, and the frictions between them. Episode 3 features a conversation between Lael and Michelle (who elected to reveal that she is a 1:1 coaching client of Lael's). Michelle's 3 threads she brings are Education, Money, and Energy, and we weave these in conversation. —We talk about these three threads as the main tracks that run across our entire country right now, and how everything we're experiencing can be connected to them in some way. —We talk about the need to expand the definition of "education" to include how kids feel about themselves

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 the world through our eyes. Each episode features a different woman who brings three "threads" (or topics) her brain keeps braiding over and over again to make meaning in our world. We look at intersections, contradictions, and the frictions between them. Episode 2 features a conversation between Lael and May (who elected to maintain her privacy for this, using a different name). May’s 3 threads she brings are Loneliness, Service, and Mattering, and we weave these in conversation. —We talk about the raw capacity we have as humans to take what feels broken, disconnected, and fractured, and make something beautiful and strong from it—like that Japanese art form, K

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 to get at just that topic: What's on your 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 women who brings three "threads" (or topics) her brain keeps braiding over and over again to make meaning in our world. We look at intersections, contradictions, and the frictions between them. Episode 1 features Megan Hellstedt, and she brings the threads of Economy, Nature, and Community to weave in conversation. We talk about the lead story that's being buried among these three, the "externalities" to our economy that are anything but, how to stay sane when inertia is all around us, the ways in which leadership is happening at the margins, the indigenous wisdom we can learn from, the need to increa

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 where you're going. She shines a light on the power of getting lost, going rogue, and getting off the beaten path as a means to find and follow our own inner GPS system. "Proceed to the route", indeed. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 found in the most unlikely of places. She explores how we might find our way forward by digging down into the depths of who we are. Kayla's story will reveal how serendipity and the world around us ask us to look deeper down inside ourselves for clues and answers—connecting us with not only ourselves, but with each other as a result. Her story is entitled: Dropping the Bucket www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 usher ourselves into the unknown, even as we're deeply uncomfortable. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 of the feminine. She imagines what would happen if women had the ability to awaken to our divinity and bring forth a magical power that could be used for the highest good. Gemma's story unearths what has been buried for too long—in ourselves and in our world—but is now undeniably here. Her story is entitled: The Red Thread. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 inside us that we often forget about—and can tap into to access and ignite our power. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 when we live in a world so filled with noise, judgement and hatred when it comes to women's bodies. Benedita's story shows how our inner struggles can help to shape our outer compassion, connecting us to ourselves and to others, even as we stand out, look different, and feel alone. Her story is entitled: And Then There Was Me. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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—in ourselves as we age into woman. And then she talks about how we women eventually get out a shovel—and go dig her up, as a means to reclaim what we have most forgotten about ourselves. www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 the topic of vulnerability and illuminates what it's like to give voice to those things that live below the places we cannot touch, but can only sense—in the unknown. FMI www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 strip ourselves naked to reveal the full wattage of who we are. Kat's story will explore what happens when we call ourselves home, put our own skin back on, and align who we truly are on the inside with how we show up on with others on the outside. Her story is entitled: Getting Naked. [*Listener note: this story contains references to sexual assault and rape, so it might hit close to the bone for those who have had similar traumatic experiences.] www.SheChanges.com Photo Credit: Kelley Drew Photography

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 Forward My 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 they're fascinating. We'll be playing at the intersections of some of the most complex conversations of our times—touching on topics like the environment, economy, education, white culture and racism, aging, death and dying, spirituality and religion, creativity, food systems, and government and politics. We'll be reflecting on what we've read, what keeps us up at night, and the places we go in our heads when we think about this world we're living in. But unlike the news, the aim of these conversations is to illuminate a larger web of understanding that connects all these distinct conversations. These conversations feel generous in that they are intimate and de

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 wholly—our internal geography we roam, our contradictions, our too muchness, and our not enoughness. At its core, this is a story—and an invitation—to move more fluidly and color outside the lines of who we're told we should be. You can learn more about Lael Couper Jepson and the work she does over at https://shechanges.com/

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 and sample the opening chapter read by Lael—and bring your match. Because now is the time and this is your moment, which is also our moment.

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 and sample the opening chapter read by Lael—and bring your match. Because now is the time and this is your moment, which is also our moment.

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 she is on the inside, and who she is on the surface, and how to best to adorn that woman. Her story is entitled: The Vessel Of Self. "After a lifetime of rule following...I walked into my advisor's at my doctoral program at Harvard, and I dropped out. I dropped out because I wanted to be wearing completely different clothes... I wanted to whole shebang of sartorial dressing to be at my disposal...this began a complicated and fraught process for me of unpacking what the word 'fashion' meant to me...and also other women." - Nadine Farag http://www.shechanges.com/experiences-for-women/shespeaks-womens-speaking-series/upcoming-shespeaks/ Photo Credit: Melissa Mullen

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 appreciate both the shit AND the gold in a surprising way. "...It brought me to this place of appreciating the need for outfitting as well as adorning...When I outfit myself, I'm ready for a street fight—that's my amour. But when I adorn myself..feel the regal nature of that word? That's me assuming the throne of my life..." - Lael Couper Jepson FMI: www.shechanges.com/experiences-for…ming-shespeaks/ Photo credit: Melissa Mullen Photography