She Has The Audacity with Chana Ross

Midlife reinvention means rebuilding your business, your parenting, and your sense of purpose all at the same time, and it rarely happens on your schedule. If you've spent years pouring yourself into a business or a cause while your kids grew up in the background, this episode is for you. After an unannounced break, Chana Ross returns to explain exactly what pulled her away from the mic in the fall of 2025 and what it taught her about time, priorities, and where her energy is actually needed most. This is a raw, real-time look at midlife awakening, empty nest transition, and the quiet questions that come with reaching a new stage of life and business. Chana Ross, Holistic Leadership Coach, Women's Health Advocate, and Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, hosts She Has The Audacity and built Vital Physiotherapy and Wellness from the ground up as a self-described accidental entrepreneur. In this episode she shares the biggest update behind her break: Vital Physiotherapy and Wellness officially joined the Bravella Health family in January 2026, becoming part of an online perimenopause and menopause care clinic so clients get seamless, one-stop support instead of juggling multiple providers. You'll hear what led to that decision, how she's renegotiating time between business and family now that her oldest is leaving the nest, and what's ahead for the show. Press play and come back for what's next. You’ll learn: Why Chana stepped away from She Has The Audacity in the fall of 2025 and what was really happening behind the scenes during the break. How Vital Physiotherapy and Wellness became part of the Bravella Health family in January 2026 and what that merger means for client care. What pelvic health physiotherapy has to do with midlife reinvention, and how Chana's accidental entrepreneur story shaped her whole career. How to recognize when your business or your family needs more of your time, and how Chana is renegotiating that balance right now. Why a graduating teenager and an empty nest can trigger a midlife awakening even when your parenting years are far from over. What questions to ask about purpose and fulfillment when the thing that used to light you up stops feeling like enough. What's coming next on She Has The Audacity, including deeper conversations on midlife, purpose, and perimenopause and menopause care. We talk about: 00:00 Welcome back and why the podcast took a break 00:58 What's coming next for She Has The Audacity 01:18 Family update, kids growing up and leaving the nest 02:11 What changes when the parenting years shift 04:04 Growing a business while parenting how do you choose 04:35 Chana's accidental entrepreneur story and pelvic health physiotherapy 06:06 Meeting Jamie and the Bravella Health connection 07:11 Why Vital Physiotherapy joined the Bravella Health family 08:57 Chana's midlife awakening and what it means 09:23 What does purpose look like right now 10:19 How to be featured as a future guest on the show Connect with me Website: https://www.chanaross.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SheHasTheAudacity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanaross/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chanarosspt #MidlifeReinvention #MidlifeAwakening #EmptyNest #WomensHealthAdvocate #PelvicHealthPhysiotherapist #HolisticLeadershipCoach #PurposeAfterForty #AccidentalEntrepreneur #PerimenopauseCare #MenopauseCare #WorkLifeBalance #MidlifeWomen #ReinventionJourney #EntrepreneurLife #ShesHastheAudacity

Every woman who has built a meaningful life knows this truth: success does not always equal fulfillment. At some point, new questions begin to surface. What matters most now? Who am I becoming? And how do I want to live this next chapter? She Has the Audacity is a podcast for women who are ready to move beyond expectations and create lives of depth, alignment, and impact. Hosted by women’s health advocate, founder of Vital Physiotherapy & Wellness, and mother of four, Chana Ross, this weekly show brings together honest conversations with women who are redefining leadership, wellbeing, and personal growth. Each episode blends thoughtful dialogue with practical insight, helping you reconnect with your values, strengthen your voice, and live with greater intention. These are not conversations about doing more. They are explorations of what it means to live with clarity, courage, and choice. Because when women have the audacity to live on their own terms, they change what is possible for everyone. 👉 Subscribe to She Has the Audacity and share it with a woman who is ready for what’s next. You’ll learn: Why achievement alone does not guarantee fulfillment, and what audacity actually means when you apply it to how you lead, work, and live. How Chana Ross moved from measuring success by an outside checklist to defining it through her own values as a physiotherapist, coach, and mother of four. What to expect from She Has the Audacity: weekly honest conversations with women reshaping what leadership, wellbeing, and purpose look like today. Why pausing to question your choices, instead of defaulting to what is expected, is the first step toward living with more intention. What changes when a woman decides to live with clarity, courage, and conviction instead of shaping her choices around other people's expectations. Why living audaciously is not about doing more, it is about becoming more: living with deeper truth, clarity, and meaning in your everyday choices. We talk about: 00:00 What does it mean to have the audacity 00:29 Meet your host, Chana Ross 00:56 What happens when you pause and choose on purpose 01:17 Why doing it all was never the actual goal 01:40 What changes when one woman lives audaciously Connect with me Website: https://www.chanaross.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SheHasTheAudacity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chanaross/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chanarosspt

Hi everyone I wanted to take a moment today to share something with you directly. She Has The Audacity has had such an incredible year — the conversations, the connection, the depth we've explored together… it truly means more to me than I can say. And as someone who believes deeply in intentional leadership — in aligning how we work with how we want to live — I'm practicing what I teach. So, I'm pressing pause for a short while. Not because anything is ending but because we are in the process of building and growing. There are some exciting shifts happening behind the scenes — new voices to bring in, new conversations to explore, new ways to support you as you design what's next in your life and leadership. This break is a moment to reflect, refine, and build something even more aligned with the mission of this show: To create a space where women can tell the truth, lead with purpose, and choose what feels real — not just what looks impressive. I'll be back with fresh episodes in the new year. In the meantime, if you're new here or catching up, this is a perfect moment to revisit past conversations that resonated — or discover the ones you haven't heard yet. Thank you for being here. Thank you for giving me the space to grow and the support. Thank you for listening, reflecting, and showing up for these deeper conversations — for supporting our community and for supporting yourselves. I can't wait to share what's coming next.

Rest isn't a luxury to earn, it's a biological need that tells the truth about how we're living. In this episode of She Has The Audacity, I sit down with Dr. Leigha Saunders, naturopathic doctor, sleep expert, and founder of The Sleep Fix, for a conversation about what our sleep is really trying to tell us. Through her own postpartum experience and years of clinical practice, Leigha has seen how exhaustion isn't a sign of weakness, but information, a reflection of nervous system overload, hormone shifts, and the invisible weight of responsibility women carry. Her work reframes rest as a form of self-leadership: the foundation for clarity, health, and purpose. Together, we explore how to rebuild a relationship with rest in every season of life, from PMS to postpartum to perimenopause, and what changes when we start treating sleep as a signal, not a symptom. Here's what you'll take away from this episode: ✨ Why sleep is a mirror for the nervous system — and a vital sign of wellbeing ✨ How hormonal transitions shape our rhythms, energy, and emotional capacity ✨ The mental load's role in restlessness, anxiety, and 3 a.m. wake-ups ✨ Why sleep "hacks" and supplements only go so far without alignment ✨ How self-trust, boundaries, and nourishment restore deep rest ✨ Practical tools for understanding — and honouring — your body's cues This is a conversation about coming home to your body. About redefining productivity as presence, and remembering that rest isn't what you step away from — it's what allows you to return to yourself. 🎧 Listen now [Insert episode link here] Connect with Dr. Leigha Saunders: 📱 Instagram: @drleighasaunders 🌐 Website: drleighasaunders.com 🛌 Program: The Sleep Fix If this conversation resonated, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share it with a woman who's ready to wake up rested, clear, and in rhythm with herself. ✨ WORK WITH CHANA ROSS! ✨ Are you an ambitious woman who is a leader at work, at home or in the community and you are looking for support with overcoming perfectionism, determining your next right step, overcoming self-doubt and learning to advocate for yourself and fall in love with the next version of you? Chana can help you anywhere in the world through coaching. Visit chanaross.com to learn more. Download Chana's FREE Time Audit Guide to start creating more time and freedom in your life today! – chanaross.com/timeaudit

What if meaningful healing isn't about fixing what's "wrong," but about understanding the full human experience behind pain? In this episode of She Has The Audacity, I sit down with Carolyn Vandyken—physiotherapist, educator, speaker, and co-owner of Reframe Rehab—for a conversation that reimagines how we approach pain, healing, and healthcare. Carolyn has been a leader in advancing the biopsychosocial model of care, bringing together the physical, emotional, and social realities that shape our well-being. Through her own evolution as a clinician, she has learned that treating the body alone is not enough — and that empowering the nervous system, behavior change, and self-trust are essential to lasting recovery. Together, we explore why physiotherapy and healthcare must move beyond "fixing," how language can either take away or restore hope, and why curiosity may be the most powerful clinical tool we have. Here's what you'll take away from this episode: ✨ What the biopsychosocial model actually looks like in practice ✨ How understanding the nervous system shifts outcomes for patients in pain ✨ Why hope, communication, and compassion are clinical interventions ✨ How pelvic health, musculoskeletal care, and pain science are deeply connected ✨ The mindset shift from treating tissues → facilitating transformation ✨ Why slowing down and trusting curiosity makes us better clinicians and humans This conversation is an invitation to see care differently — not as doing something to someone, but as creating the conditions that allow them to heal. 🎧 Listen now [Insert episode link here] Connect with Carolyn Vandyken: 📱 Instagram: @reframerehab 👥 Facebook Community: Reframe Rehab — Biopsychosocial Conversations 🏥 Clinical Practice: PhysioWorks Muskoka (Huntsville) If this episode sparked something for you, we'd be so grateful if you left a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify — and shared it with someone who is ready to rethink what healing can look like. ✨ WORK WITH CHANA ROSS! ✨ Are you an ambitious woman who is a leader at work, at home or in the community and you are looking for support with overcoming perfectionism, determining your next right step, overcoming self-doubt and learning to advocate for yourself and fall in love with the next version of you? Chana can help you anywhere in the world through coaching. Visit chanaross.com to learn more. Download Chana's FREE Time Audit Guide to start creating more time and freedom in your life today! – chanaross.com/timeaudit