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Want to come inside La Menarderie? On Saturday, September 19, Wendy is opening the doors (virtually!) for a live tour of the château she and her friend Liz have been bringing to life in the French countryside. Come see the treasures she’s sourced, what they’ve been working on, and this beautiful old property while it’s still very much in progress. The tour is live on Zoom and will not be recorded.
JOIN THE LIVE TOUR: wendy-harrop.myflodesk.com/lamenarderietour

In this episode, Wendy sits down with Christine Carron of Good Jelly to challenge the idea that meaningful progress requires more pressure, discipline, or hours spent working. Christine helps highly capable creatives find patterns of progress that honor how they actually work, rather than forcing themselves into someone else’s system. Together, they explore what changes when you stop treating yourself like an assembly line, recognize the wins you usually dismiss, and begin leading your creative work with more spaciousness, self-trust, and delight.
They explore:
Why your creative process is allowed to look different from everyone else’s and change from one project, season, or day to the next 
How perfectionism and undefined finish lines keep you working without ever feeling the momentum of what you’ve completed 
Christine’s practice of creating “done boosts” by naming your endpoints and becoming flagrantly generous in acknowledging your progress 
This is a conversation about making room for creativity without running yourself into the ground. If you’re doing meaningful work but constantly focused on what remains unfinished, Christine offers a more sustaining way to recognize your progress and keep moving.
Connect with Christine:
Website: https://www.goodjelly.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-carron
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leagueofgoodjelly/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@goodjelly
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gwb5WONWrI8
Referenced in this Episode:
Aransas Savas' Episode, The One Question that Shifts Everything: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1872382/episodes/18652692 
Episodes with Rachel Jackson:
How to Stop Performing and Start Trusting Yourself | Rachel Jackson: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1872382/episodes/18586302
Saying Yes To Your New Version With Rachel Jackson: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1872382/episodes/13455977
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Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
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Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!
Want to come inside La Menarderie? On Saturday, September 19, Wendy is opening the doors (virtually!) for a live tour of the château she and her friend Liz have been bringing to life in the French countryside. Come see the treasures she’s sourced, what they’ve been working on, and this beautiful old property while it’s still very much in progress. The tour is live on Zoom and will not be recorded.
JOIN THE LIVE TOUR: wendy-harrop.myflodesk.com/lamenarderietour
And if you’re dreaming of more time in a French château, Wendy is also inviting just six guests to join her for Stories, Sourcing & Styling at Château de Brives, November 15–23.
 EXPLORE STORIES, SOURCING & STYLING: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/antique-experience-france

In this episode, Wendy sits down with Aline Ghorayeb, author of A Change of Heart with Mary Magdalene, to talk about the spiritual vision that changed the direction of her life. Aline shares how the experience and the messages that followed led her to Mary Magdalene, called her to write despite never considering herself an author, and opened a new chapter in her spiritual journey. Her search to understand what she had received eventually led her to A Course in Miracles, the Gnostic Gospels, and a message that continues to guide her: we are not separate, incomplete, or alone.
They explore:
 How Aline discerns between fear-based reactions and choices that reconnect her with love 
 What it meant to trust a deeply personal spiritual experience and share its message with others 
 Why wholeness is not something we must earn or find outside ourselves, but something we are invited to remember 
This is a conversation about trusting your inner knowing, remaining open to the ways guidance may arrive, and releasing the conditioning that tells you something essential is missing from who you already are.
Connect with Aline:
Get her book, A Change of Heart with Mary Magdalene: Sacred Revelation, Gnostic Wisdom, Inner Alchemy: amazon.com/dp/B0G12DP4H6?tag=syty-20
VitalitybyAline.com
Instagram: instagram.com/vitalitybyaline
Referenced in this Episode: 
A Course in Miracles:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acim-remind/id737568020
https://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Combined-Quality/dp/1883360242?tag=syty-20
marianne.com/acim/
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Connect with Wendy:
Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!
Ready for your own pattern interrupt? Explore Wendy’s upcoming experiences in France and discover what becomes available when you step outside your routine, learn something new, and say yes to an adventure that feels good.
wendy-harrop.com/journeys
In this episode, Wendy sits down with therapist Jessica Fern and restorative relationship practitioner David Cooley to examine how shame shapes the way we relate to ourselves and the people closest to us. They introduce the “inner shame triangle”: an inner critic that attacks, a shame part that absorbs and believes the criticism, and escaper parts that try to outrun it through over-functioning, under-functioning, busyness, or numbing. The conversation becomes deeply personal as Wendy reflects on her divorce and Jessica and David share how they ended their marriage, continued co-parenting, and created a new relationship structure that better meets their family’s needs.
They explore:
 How the inner critic, shame, and escaper parts reinforce one another and show up during relationship conflict 
 Why willingness and capacity are both necessary for couples who want to grow together 
 What it means to measure a relationship’s success by whether people’s needs are being met, not simply by how long it lasts 
This is a conversation about recognizing the internal patterns influencing your relationships, responding to yourself with greater compassion, and allowing relationships to evolve when the old configuration no longer works.
Connect with Jessica & David:
Get their book, Transforming the Shame Triangle: amazon.com/Transforming-Shame-Triangle-Using-Parts/dp/199086970X?tag=syty-20
JessicaFern.com
RestorativeRelationship.com
TheAzuriteWay.com
Ask Jess & Dave Show: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGHjbRL3XbZT0ZppTALUwwBUub68uMiij
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Connect with Wendy:
Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!
In this bonus mini episode, Wendy shares how a series of small, aligned yeses led to unexpected friendships, collaborations, and opportunities across France. From meeting Chef Eric in Normandy to expanding her work with Jessica Hickman-Woolcott and the Cognac Jewellery School, none of it arrived through a perfectly mapped-out plan. It unfolded one decision and one connection at a time.
Wendy also shares how she recognizes her next right step, why she doesn’t need to see the entire path before moving forward, and the practices that help her distinguish intuition from resistance.
You don’t have to know exactly how everything will work. You can quiet the noise, trust your own knowing, and take the next logical step.
Referenced in This Episode:
Listen to Wendy’s conversation with Jessica Hickman-Woolcott: buzzsprout.com/1872382/episodes/16767951
 Explore the Cognac Jewellery School: Foundations: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/cjs-foundation-2027
Collections: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/cognac-jewellery-school-collections-2027

 Explore Wendy’s coaching offers: wendy-harrop.com/coaching
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Connect with Wendy:
Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.

Fan Mail: Tell Wendy how you're saying yes to yourself!
French Antiques Experience - Chateau de Brives: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/antique-experience-france
Cognac Jewellery School Foundations 2027: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/cjs-foundation-2027
Cognac Jewellery School Collections Week 2027: wendy-harrop.com/experiences-cart/p/cognac-jewellery-school-collections-2027
In this episode, Wendy sits down with author and educator Thymai Dong-Sheehan to talk about identity, belonging, and the courage to tell your own story. Born in Vietnam and raised in the United States, Thymai grew up navigating two cultures while never feeling fully claimed by either. Years later, stepping away from her career to care for family left her grieving the loss of her worker identity, but it also gave her the space to pursue two dreams she had been saving for retirement: publishing The Beauties of My So-Called Asian Life and starting her own business. What emerged was an honest examination of the stories told about her, the parts of herself she had learned to minimize, and what it meant to finally decide that her experiences were valid and worth sharing.
They explore:
 How Thymai moved from feeling caught between Vietnamese and American identities to embracing the full complexity of who she is 
 Why releasing the need to prove she belonged required vulnerability, spirituality, community, and self-forgiveness 
 How losing confidence after leaving her career led Thymai back to the inner work behind her larger vision for educational change 
This is a conversation about claiming the right to tell your own story, allowing every part of your identity to belong, and trusting what can emerge when an unexpected pause creates room for something new.
Connect with Thymai:
ThymaiDongSheehan.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tmaidong
Get her book, The Beauties of My So-Called Asian Life: Vulnerability, Equity, Spirituality: amazon.com/Beauties-So-Called-Asian-Life-Vulnerability/dp/B0F7GSKHVN?tag=syty-20
Referenced in this Episode:
A Course in Miracles Links: 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/acim-remind/id737568020
https://www.amazon.com/Course-Miracles-Combined-Quality/dp/1883360242?tag=syty-20
marianne.com/acim/
Creative in Residence at the Phineas Wright House: app.flodesk.com/form/6995f2e1ae676cb64b2c5b37
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Connect with Wendy:
Linkedin
Instagram: @wendy.harrop
Facebook: Phineas Wright House
Website: Phineas Wright House
PWH Farm Stays
PWH Curated Experience and Travel
Interested in being a guest on the show?
Send your pitch to podcast@phineaswrighthouse.com
Podcast Production By Shannon Warner of Resonant Collective
Want to start your own podcast? Let's chat!
If this episode resonated, follow Say YES to Yourself! and leave a  5-star review. It helps more women in midlife discover the tools, stories, and community that make saying YES not only possible, but powerful.