Every Monday, a woman sits down with Jen Chenard and tells the real version of her story — the wins, the setbacks, the lessons that only showed up in hindsight, and the moments that took real courage.
Jen left twenty years in corporate healthcare to build this. She isn't a coach or an expert. She asks the questions nobody asks these women in public, then gets out of the way.
Guests are women in the middle of something — leaving a career, starting over, writing the book, doing the thing that scared them.
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Put It Down Here: The Room Where Women Stop Pretending - Girl Dinner | Caitlin Wilkinson
he put fifteen hundred dollars into a room she wasn’t sure anyone would walk into. Seventy women came.
In this episode of Redefining Her Game, Jen Chenard sits down with Caitlin Wilkinson, founder of Girl Dinner — a social club with purpose built on one invitation: let’s get real over dinner. Caitlin sat with the idea for almost ten years while she rebuilt her life after leaving an abusive marriage. When she finally ran the first event, she hoped thirty women might come and hoped to raise fifteen hundred dollars. Seventy came and they raised almost six thousand.
We get into what actually happens when a woman walks through the door, why nothing you arrive carrying is too much, and the part nobody posts about: what it really costs to keep a room like this running.
WHAT WE COVER
• Why “no dues, no membership, no pressure” was a decision, not an accident
• What she needed when she was in the worst of it that nobody gave her
• The first time she said out loud that she was in an abusive relationship
• Why joy belongs in a room built for hard conversations
• The real maths — two thousand dollars, recycled five events deep
• Why she sells out events with under five hundred followers
• The November 8th fundraiser for Fourth Tri Sanctuary
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:54 What Girl Dinner actually is
01:42 The hour before the doors open
03:13 What happens when you walk in
05:53 Eighteen to eighty — who it’s for
07:03 If you don’t want to talk, there’s still a place
09:40 Why she built it
11:52 Seventy women and six thousand dollars
15:04 Who showed up that first night
17:36 What she needed that nobody gave her
21:39 “Put it down here, we can carry it”
26:00 The first time she said it out loud
35:06 Making room for joy
37:29 Two thousand dollars and a deposit
47:32 The November 8th fundraiser
52:04 Women supporting women
53:02 What she’d tell a woman in a hard season
FIND CAITLIN
Girl Dinner: inspiredascend.com/girldinner
Instagram & TikTok: @girldinner.mi
Next event: Sunday November 8th, 11–2, Union 212 in Milford — a brunch fundraiser for Fourth Tri Sanctuary in Ferndale
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19 Oct 2026
Violinist to Farmer: She Bought the Land Sight Unseen | Corrie — Redefining Her Game #9
Corrie was a professional violinist, born and raised in Southern California. Then she started looking into what was actually in the food she was feeding her six-month-old — and couldn't find anywhere near her to buy farm fresh eggs from.
So she and her husband bought a farm in Tennessee, a state neither of them had ever set foot in, off a video walkthrough filmed by a realtor they'd never met. She was pregnant with their second. Days after they moved in, her husband lost his job. Their families didn't want them to go.
This one is about trusting yourself anyway, leaning on your faith, and what it actually takes to build the life you said you wanted — learning along the way.
WHAT WE COVER
- Why she couldn't source a single farm fresh egg in Carlsbad, and what that set off
- Buying forty acres sight unseen in a state they'd never visited
- The breeder who refused to sell them a guardian dog until they had something for him to protect
- Teaching herself to hand-milk a cow she still has to greet every morning before the cow will follow her in
- The video she filmed while milking that hit eight million views overnight
- What a farm actually costs — over an hour of chores before anyone gets a coffee
- The app she and her husband are building to connect people straight to local farmers
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
01:33 A professional violinist in California
02:17 The egg that started everything
04:29 "Let's go full send" — deciding on Tennessee
08:30 Bought off a realtor's video walkthrough
10:56 Five days in: a guardian dog and four pregnant sheep
16:57 Everyone told them not to go
18:35 Days after moving, her husband lost his job
21:17 From a condo to forty acres
22:57 What a day on the farm actually looks like
24:27 Learning to hand-milk a cow who won't be bossed
29:13 Real life versus the highlight reel
34:46 What she does with the mean comments
37:32 What it actually costs
41:50 What's next: thefarm.app
47:46 What women supporting women looks like
49:16 Know your why, then just do it
51:00 Outro
FIND CORRIE
Instagram: @corriesfarmhouse
TikTok: @corriesfarmhouse
The Farm app: thefarm.app — on the App Store
12 Oct 2026
What Holding It Together Actually Costs — Christina Parise
She held it together for thirty-five years. Then she found out there was a reason.
Christina Parise, LCSW, is a therapist, clinical supervisor and the founder of Clear Mind Counseling, a group practice specialising in ADHD, anxiety and trauma. She was tested as a child and told she didn't have ADHD, and spent the next two decades believing the problem was her. When she finally went looking for an answer, fifteen therapists in a row told her they couldn't give her one.
We get into why so many women are finding this out in their thirties and forties and not before, what an ADHD assessment actually looks like, why rejection sensitivity gets mistaken for social anxiety, and what masking costs the woman who's been holding it together for everybody else. And the question Jen asked that she didn't expect to end up answering herself — what a woman grieves when she finally gets an answer.
Find Christina at @adhdwithchristina on Instagram and TikTok, and at christinaparise.com. Her community, Held It Together, is open now for women 30 and up who have an ADHD diagnosis or suspect they might.
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