This Is How We Rise: My Story, Our Healing, and the Next Era

In this episode of "This Is How We Rise," Nika Lawrie shares her vision for the podcast and her commitment to empowering women to achieve their dreams. She emphasizes the importance of addressing both mental and physical health as foundational elements for success. Nika reflects on her personal journey, including her previous podcast, and discusses the challenges women face, particularly in balancing motherhood and career aspirations. She aims to provide tools and resources that help women navigate these challenges, build their identities, and connect with supportive communities.

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Hello, friend. I am so glad to have you join me today on the latest episode of This Is How We Rise. Today's episode, I'm going to talk to you a little bit about some of my plans for the future and why I really hope it connects deeply with you. I want to be clear up front, this podcast is not going to be talking about me specifically so you don't get bored listening to my hopes and dreams. The idea really is to explain what my goals are in order to help you achieve your dreams, whether that is starting a business, growing a business, or reaching some big dream that you've had for most of your life, or even maybe just a brand new dream, and how if we think about things differently and we approach life a little differently, achieving those goals, those dreams becomes so much easier. I'll tell you a little bit about my backstory so that you understand why I've come into this work and why I think it's so profound and life-changing, but also just so you know a little bit more about me. Um, so many of you may know that I actually had a podcast for years and years. It was called Inspired with Nika Lori. Um, I did it for about four years, almost exactly four years. So I started in early 2020, right before the pandemic started, and then went all the way through the end of 2024, a little bit into 2025. And then I decided to take a break because I was going through some personal changes or shifts, just kind of growing out of some darker times in my life and really trying to find that light and new direction and new identity that would bring me to where I am today and to focus on what it is I want to do. So going forward, the thing that I'm really trying to focus on is helping women rise. Now, before I get into that, let me just say I love men. I have no issue with men. I am not trying to bash on men or hold men back or say that they don't deserve love and support and help in any way because they do. And I really want to see men succeed because when men succeed, that supports women and women also succeed as well. But for me, obviously, I am a female. I'm a woman, and um, so I have just that connection and I really want to help women rise as much as possible. When I say rise, what I hope is that I want to help generations of women work through the struggles that we face day in and day out. Things like economic issues, things like not having access to business funding in order to grow our businesses or to launch the dreams that we have. Things like the balance between motherhood and career and our dreams and our own self-identity. When you are a mother, almost everything is set uh aside and you do your best to keep your career going as much as you can. But really, you know, motherhood just children, their lives take the priority, and there's just not much that you can do around that. And you also lose your own self-identity a lot in that process. And so figuring out how to support women through that very difficult time or season of life. Don't get me wrong, I love being a mother. I love my daughter more than anything. But I think most mothers know what I mean when I say it is the hardest, most challenging, difficult thing that you will ever take on. And it can be sometimes truly detrimental to your own self-identity, to your own health and your own mental and physical well-being. I know I have changed quite a bit, both mentally and physically, after having my daughter and uh being a mother for the last almost 11 years now. On top of that, I think it's really important to discuss the fact that there are so many business coaches and personal development coaches and gurus out there spewing so much information about how to start a business or how to make money or how to grow and how to reach your dreams and how to do all these things. But so few of them are actually connecting all the dots that you need to connect in order to actually hit that next step of launching the business or growing the business. And when I say connecting all the dots, things I mean are things like getting our health in order, getting that mental and physical piece of our health in order, understanding what actually works for our own unique bodies and being able to find our way through all the chaos and all the noise of the latest diet or the latest trend or the, you know, the back and forth on is this healthy or is it not, and the ever-changing, you know, tides of health and wellness and personal development as well. And so really helping women understand what's going to work for them. What are the three or four things that they need to focus on in order to make that massive shift forward to really truly have that transition so that they show up as the person that they want to be and need to be in order to take their business or whatever it is, their goal to that next level, to really start transforming their lives and really start living the life that they dream of. And so my goal going forward, specifically with this podcast, but with all the work that I'm doing, is really helping women work on their health. That's both mentally and physically, work on their identity, really understanding how you think about yourself and how you communicate to yourself internally and how you show up in the world every single day. This piece is so often missed when it comes to business coaches or personal development coaches. It's really focusing on that identity piece and how to shift those behaviors and shift the beliefs that you have internally about who you are and how you decide to show up in the world and how to communicate with yourself. So, again, that's health. So mental and physical, that's identity and the behaviors around your identity. And then also really helping women to come up with those strategies in order to achieve the dreams. So sometimes it can be things like how to just structure your day, especially around being a mother and having a career and still wanting to get other things done. How to structure your day when you are struggling with fear or procrastination or um insecurities about maybe posting something on social media, how to overcome those things and how to become accountable to yourself and accountable to the dream that you have, the work that you want to accomplish, but maybe you haven't yet. How do you work your day structure so that you actually take action and get those steps done or those tasks completed? And then the last piece is really helping women make those connections or build the community or connect within the community of other like-minded women who are growing businesses, who are achieving dreams, who are transforming their lives, who are supporting the community in the way that they dream about helping these women access funding to launch ideas or businesses that they have and really building that network of women across not just the United States, not just North America, but the entire world. How do we support everybody in rising together? Because the more women rise, the better all communities end up being, the better families are, this more uh safe and secure families tend to be as the women and the matriarchs of those families rise up. And the world will improve as well. So the goal is to really help as many women as possible across the world rise. So note the name of the podcast. It's called This Is How We Rise with Nika Lori, right? So this is how we rise. Every episode, every step, it's gonna be about giving you a tool or a resource or some kind of inspiration to help you transform whatever it is that you want to transform in your life and to help you rise so that you can help your community rise and the whole world will rise together. All of these women will rise together. So I'm really excited. I have so many things coming to share with you. I have tons of interviews already recorded, ready to go to share with you that I can't wait to put out. And I'll also have tons of solo episodes for you as well, just giving you tips and tricks and different things like that. For today, I want to leave you with something that you can think about right now to implement in your life. So your health and your identity and your dreams are deeply connected. You cannot build a life that you love, you cannot build that life that you dream of when your nervous system is shot, when your identity is fuzzy and you're uncertain of what it is you actually want to do or who exactly you want to be. And you cannot chase dreams when your body feels heavy and exhausted and mentally and physically overwhelmed. This show is here to help you reconnect the dots between how you feel in your body, what you think about yourself, and what you think is actually possible in this world. And of course, how you show up. When you align these things, everything else starts to fall into place and you will start to transform into the person that you want to be. I hope this is helpful. Start thinking about who it is you want to be and what the dreams you have really look like. And take the dreams that you have and then add a little to it, make it just a little bit bigger. So if you want to start a company and make a million dollars, maybe think about start a company and make $1.5 million or $2 million. Just make it a little bit bigger and start writing those things down. From here, we're gonna get to work. So I can't wait to share it with you. I'm here for you and I love you, and I will see you in the next episode because together, this is how we rise.