Girl, Choose Yourself!
Girl, Choose Yourself!
Hosted by Eimear Zone, author of The Little Book of Good Enough and the newly released Choose Yourself, Girl, Choose Yourself! is the podcast for women ready to reclaim their power, break free from the expectations that have held them back, and live life on their own terms. Each week, Eimear shares heartfelt conversations and gritty truths that challenge the stories we've been told by society, our families, and even ourselves. This podcast is all about reconnecting with the truth of who you truly are, embracing your powerful magnificence, and boldly creating a life that reflects your dreams, not your fears. If you're ready to choose yourself, show up fully, and live unapologetically, hit play and join the movement.
Episodes
68 episodes
Confidence Session 3: I Am Connected
Confidence Session 3: I Am ConnectedPart of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.This week's session is about the truth that we are not separate. From each other, from life...
Confidence Session 2: I Trust
Confidence Session 2: I TrustPart of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.This week's session is about connecting to something greater than yourself — a deeper intelligence...
Confidence Session 1: I Choose
Part of The Confidence Sessions — a twelve-week summer series on Girl, Choose Yourself.This week's session is about releasing the need to push, force, or strive — and returning to the deeper knowing that is always there beneath ...
Introducing The Confidence Sessions: A New Way of Understanding Confidence
This summer I'm doing something different on the podcast.Every week I'll be releasing a short confidence session — a recorded meditation designed to be listened to daily. Save it, come back to it each morning, let it settle into you. Twe...
The Ambition Penalty: Stefanie O'Connell on Why Ambitious Women Keep Getting Pushed Down
So many women are burned out, running on empty, and quietly wondering if they just need to try harder, speak up more, be more assertive, or do something differently. We've been implementing all the advice, and we're left exhausted and ...
The Good Girl Hangover
Have you ever followed all the rules and still felt vaguely hollow? Ever done everything right and wondered why it doesn't feel like yours? Ever woken up somewhere in midlife and realised the map you've been navigating by was never actually you...
The Comparison Trap: Why Nothing You Do Ever Feels Like Enough
You achieved the thing, hit the goal, but somehow it still didn't feel quite enough. Meanwhile, someone else's success lands like a small deflation you can't quite explain, and you feel vaguely ashamed of both.This is one of the most raw...
Strive If That's Your Thing — But What If It Didn't Have to Be So Hard?
You're doing everything right. The work, the discipline, the showing up. And yet somewhere underneath all of it is a tiredness that a good night's sleep doesn't touch. A sense that you're pushing against something that shouldn't require quite t...
Anxious, Exhausted, Always People Pleasing? The One Root Cause.
We spend our lives building elaborate systems to avoid feeling certain things. And we don't even realise we're doing it. We call it being organised, being responsible, being careful. We call it managing. But underneath all that managing is some...
From Cloudy to Clarity: One Woman's Journey to an Alcohol-Free Life
Maybe it's the Tuesday night drink that became two. Maybe it's the glass you pour before you've even thought about it. Maybe it's the question you push away before it fully forms - Is this still serving me?Nia Thomas used to be ...
Be With What Is: What a Breast Biopsy Taught Me About Peace, Presence and Letting Go
This is a personal one.Earlier this week, I went in for a targeted ultrasound and left with a breast biopsy scheduled for the following morning. It was my third. And what happened in the hours between that appointment and the result, par...
Enough Already: From Self-Rejection to Self-Acceptance
What if the voice in your head telling you that you're not enough isn't actually yours?Most of us have been in self-rejection mode for so long that we don't recognise it as a choice. It feels familiar. It feels like reality. It's t...
Choosing to Be the Change: Amy Watson, Founder of Hassl on Tackling Harassment at Its Root
Over 70% of women in the UK report experiencing sexual harassment in public spaces. Globally, it's higher than that. And yet the message to women remains the same — be careful, stay safe, it's your responsibility.Today's guest is done wi...
What Do You Want? Reclaiming Desire After Years of Putting Everyone Else First
If someone asked you right now what you want — truly want, for yourself, not for anyone else — could you answer? For so many women in midlife, that question lands like a small panic. Not because life is bad. But because somewhere in the years o...
She Quit at 47, Chose Herself, and Built a Life She Loves
What does it look like to walk away from a nearly decade-long career — no backup plan, no degree, just a gut feeling that something had to change? For Sarah Magnoni, it looked like burnout, a text sent on a Saturday morning, six months of nappi...
The Cost of Being Easy to Be Around: The People-Pleasing Pattern Nobody Talks About
Are you the one who volunteers first? Who over-delivers without being asked? Who smooths the awkward silences, anticipates what everyone needs, and makes herself indispensable — in friendships, at work, in her family?Most of us were neve...
All We Want Is Everything: Soraya Chemaly on Male Supremacy, Power & Decentering Men
What happens when we finally name the system?In this powerful conversation, I’m joined by award-winning journalist, activist, and author Soraya Chemaly, whose latest book All We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Sup...
What Is Mindfulness? A Simple Introduction + Guided Meditation
We live in a world where stress, anxiety, and burnout have become normal. According to the World Health Organization, workplace burnout alone was officially recognized as a legitimate occupational phenomenon — and it continues to rise year afte...
The Comparison Trap: What Social Media Is Really Costing You (And One Protocol That Actually Works)
Scrolling through social media and feeling that familiar sinking feeling? That's not accidental—it's engineered. But the real cost of comparison goes way beyond just feeling bad for a few minutes. In this solo episode, Eimear reveals three hidd...
Women Building the World Women Need With Vanessa Karel, Founder of Greether
What happens when a woman experiences a problem firsthand — and decides not to tolerate it?In this powerful conversation, Eimear is joined by Vanessa Karel, founder of Greether, an award-winning, global travel platform buil...
The Light Returns: Brigid, Imbolc & the Season of Becoming
January asks us to reinvent ourselves overnight.But our bodies, and the natural world, tell a different story.In this episode, Eimear invites you into the quieter turning point that arrives in early February, when the light begins to...
The Defaults We Never Question (and How They Shape Women’s Confidence)
Confidence doesn’t disappear by accident.It’s shaped, slowly, quietly, by what we grow up surrounded by and taught to accept as “normal.”The voices we’re used to hearing in charge.The roles women are expected to play without c...
Procrastination: How to Stop Putting Off What You Want Most
If you’ve been circling the thing you really want — the book, the business, the bold new chapter — but you keep putting it off, this episode is for you.In today’s episode, I break down what behavioral science actually says about...
Nothing Is Wrong With You: Living Well in a World That Wasn’t Built for You
Many women move through life with a quiet, persistent thought in the background: something is wrong with me.Not loudly.Not dramatically.Just enough to keep self-acceptance slightly out of reach.In this episode, Ei...
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Unlocking Your True Self
As a new year begins, many women rush to set goals, habits, and resolutions — and yet so little actually changes.Why?Because most change doesn’t fail at the level of effort. It fails at the level of identity.In thi...