Carrie Jo Coaching

✨Mark your calendars!✨

If you’ve been wondering why your energy feels different, your patience disappeared, your sleep has become a joke, or you just don’t quite feel like yourself anymore… you’re not imagining it.

Join me and Alison Barbeln for Women’s Spark Night: Hormones, Hot Flashes & Happy Hour for an evening of real conversations, practical tips, plenty of laughs, and a chance to connect with other women who get it.

Just honest conversation about what’s happening in our bodies and minds, and what we can actually do about it.

📅 Wednesday, August 5
🕠 5:30–7:00 PM
📍Edge Bar & Boutique

Grab a friend, stop by after work, enjoy a drink, and leave feeling a little more informed, a little more connected, and a lot less alone.

✨ Spots are limited! ✨

https://spark-nites.com

Ever catch yourself thinking…

Why am I so tired?
Why do I feel so emotional?
What's with the hot flashes?
Why can’t I sleep?
Why don’t I feel like myself anymore?

You’re not imagining it, and you’re definitely not the only one asking those questions.
If you’re navigating your 40s or 50s, your body, your brain, and your hormones are changing. But that doesn’t mean you have to figure it all out alone.

Join us for an evening of real conversation, practical insights, and zero judgment.

✨ Women’s Spark Nite: Hormones, Hot Flashes & Happy Hour

I’ll be joined by Ali from Abounding Wellness as we talk about what’s happening beneath the surface and how hormone changes affect not only your body, but also your confidence, stress, relationships, energy, and sense of self.

You’ll leave with:
💛 A better understanding of what’s happening in your body
💛 Simple, practical strategies you can start using right away
💛 Encouragement from women who get it
💛 A reminder that you’re not “losing yourself”—you’re navigating a new season.

📅 Wednesday, August 5
🕠 5:30–7:00 PM
📍 The Edge Bar & Boutique

Bring a friend, grab a drink, and let’s have the conversation so many women wish someone had started sooner.

✨ Reserve your spot: https://spark-nites.com

✨ Calling all midlife women… this one’s for YOU. ✨

If you’ve found yourself thinking…

• Why am I so tired all the time?
• Why can't I remember anything?
• Why do I feel like a completely different person?
• Why does everyone keep saying, “Welcome to midlife,” like that’s supposed to make me feel better? 😅

You’re not imagining it.
You’re not “just getting older.”
And you’re definitely not the only one.

Join us for Hormones, Hot Flashes & Happy Hour — a fun, FREE, relaxed evening where we’ll talk about what’s really happening during perimenopause and menopause.

Just honest conversation, practical tips, coffee (or wine 🍷), shopping, and a room full of women who get it.

You’ll leave with:
✨ A better understanding of what’s happening in your body
✨ Natural ways to support your energy and mood
✨ Mindset tools to help you feel more like YOU again
✨ Practical solutions you can actually use
✨ New connections with incredible women

Grab a friend who needs this too, because let’s be honest… we all know at least one woman who’s Googled “Is this menopause?” at 2 a.m. 😆

📅 Wednesday, August 5
📍 The Edge Bar & Boutique
🎟️ FREE, but seating is limited!

Reserve your spot today! We’d love to see you there. 💕

https://spark-nites.com/

Here’s to sunshine, summer memories, belly laughs, and time with the people who fill your cup.

Have a safe, relaxing, and joy-filled holiday! ✨

Sometimes getting unstuck isn’t about making a huge change.

It’s about making one small move. Small shifts create big momentum.

Which one will you try this week?

👇 Tell me in the comments.

Happy Father’s Day to these two amazing dads—and all of the other awesome dads, grandpas, bonus dads and father figures out there! So blessed and thankful to have them in our lives! ♥️

Fourteen years ago today, we sat in a hospital room praying for a miracle as we waited while Kennedy had a life-saving liver transplant.

It was scary, hopeful, heartbreaking, overwhelming and miraculous all at the same time.

It’s a strange thing to experience one of the hardest days of your life and one of the most beautiful gifts you’ll ever receive on the exact same day. I will never forget the feeling. And it resurfaces every year as I think about it.

Because while we were praying for more time with our daughter, another family was experiencing unimaginable loss. And because of their selfless decision, we got more.

More birthdays. More laughs. More ordinary moments that suddenly don’t feel ordinary at all.

Over the past 14 years, I’ve watched Kennedy not only survive, but truly live. I’ve watched her grow into a strong, caring, compassionate, resilient young woman who understands the gift of life in a way most people never have to. Life hasn't been easy for her, but she keeps fighting and staying positive.

All of this has taught me that life is fragile. That ordinary moments are actually extraordinary. We spend so much time worrying about things that really don’t matter. And it taught me to stop waiting for someday.

Someday when things slow down.
Someday when everything is perfect.
Someday when the timing is right.

We don’t get a guarantee of someday. We get today.

So love your people. Chase the thing that lights you up. Take the trip. Have the conversation. Pay attention to the little moments happening right in front of you right now.

To Kennedy’s donor and donor family: thank you will never feel big enough. We love you and pray for you every single day.

If Kennedy’s story inspires even one person to become an organ donor, that ripple continues. 💙

Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gJy2N-wS

💙 14 years post-transplant
💙 14 years of gratitude
💙 14 years of living her best life

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how many women are carrying SO much right now… while also feeling surprisingly disconnected at the same time.

Disconnected from themselves.
From joy.
From real conversation.
From people who make them feel safe enough to exhale.

This week’s Weekly Spark newsletter dives into why connection and community matter more than we realize, especially during stressful seasons of life.

Because sometimes what we call “burnout” is actually prolonged disconnection.

And one honest conversation, one safe space, or one meaningful connection can shift more than we think.

If you’ve been craving deeper connection lately… I think this one will resonate. 🩵

https://www.carriejocoaching.com/newsletter-sign-up

“Recalculating route” is just life’s way of shifting you when something no longer fits or aligns with who you are or what you value anymore.

That’s not failure.
That’s growth. 💗

Recently, I asked a room full of women a simple question:

“What do you actually like to do for fun?”

The room got quiet. Then came the nervous laughter. A few women looked at each other and said things like:

“I honestly don’t know.”
“I have no clue.”
“I can’t remember the last time I did something just because I wanted to.”

And honestly? That was a bit hard to hear.

Because these were smart, capable women with full lives. Women holding families together, building careers, managing schedules, showing up for everyone else, and getting things DONE.

Most of them looked like they were killing it.

But somewhere along the way, many of them stopped paying attention to themselves.

Not all at once. Just slowly. One responsibility at a time. One busy season at a time. One “I’ll deal with myself later” at a time. And eventually, survival mode started feeling normal.

I see this all the time.

Women who can organize everyone else’s lives but struggle to answer questions like:

What lights you up?
What gives you energy?
What do you enjoy just because YOU enjoy it?
What makes you feel good?

That kind of disconnection matters more than most people realize.

Because when you spend years ignoring yourself, life can start to feel heavy.

So if this feels a little familiar, maybe this is your reminder to reconnect with yourself again.

Not the version of you that performs. Not the version of you that manages everyone else.

YOU.

This Week’s Micro Move:
Make a quick list of:
• Things you used to love
• Things you’re curious about
• Moments when you're enjoying yourself the most.

Don’t overthink it. And please don’t turn it into another project to perfect.

This isn’t about becoming a “better” version of yourself.

It’s about reconnecting with the version of you that’s been buried under responsibility for way too long.

And honestly, that’s some of the most important work there is.