I had the pleasure of meeting Karin recently when I was a guest on her, and co-host Bo Koltnow’s, Saturday Sunrise show. I knew she would be a perfect guest on the Empowered Women Interview series. Enjoy! BIO Karin Mallett has been with WFMZ TV since 2003 as a features reporter and co-host of the Saturday Sunrise. You can see her every Wednesday on the 5:30pm newscast and on Saturday mornings from 7am to 9am. While with WFMZ, Karin developed two franchises: the Emmy Award-nom

With the official publication date of Breathe, Empower, Achieve: 5-Minute Mindfulness for Women Who Do It All just one week away, I thought I’d share why the BEA framework is so important to our success as women. (Men can, of course, benefit greatly from it, too, though women face some fundamentally different challenges. I address that it the book.) 5-minute mindfulness allows us to pause and step off that nonstop, overwhelming hamster wheel of busyness in simple ways, withou

Hello, Spring! I’ve missed you! Get outside and enjoy…. #inspiration #mindfulness #quotes

Happy International Women’s Day. Go out there today, offer a sincere compliment, do a good deed, make a connection, lift another woman up. We rise together. #empoweredwomen #mindfulness

Thanks to Cathy Hirko of Lehigh Valley Business for highlighting the benefits of mindfulness. Here is our interview: LVB: You wrote a book about mindfulness and busy moms. What was the inspiration behind that book? When did you realize that you had that first book in you? How did that come about? Moralis: I have two kids, now seven and 17. I began faithfully meditating 30 minutes daily when my daughter was three. Pregnant with my son years later, I knew there would soon be no

It can be uncomfortable — even downright terrifying — to open ourselves up to being loved. Allowing our hearts to be vulnerable goes against our protective human nature. In honor of Valentine’s Day, practice offering YOURSELF the kindness, compassion, and encouragement you so freely bestow on others. Without judgment, recognize the resistance and self-imposed barriers, and firmly, yet kindly chip away at them. Done regularly, the rewards are exponential, expanding our ability

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Ronee Welch is the founder and CEO of Sleeptastic Solutions (www.sleeptasticsolutions.com). She is a certified pediatric and adult sleep consultant, lactation counselor, infant massage educator, and parenting coach. She has a dual bachelor’s degree in both Marketing (BS) and Management (BA) from DeSales University in Pennsylvania, and is the Eastern Regional Director of the Association of Prof

jennifer pallian/unsplash The months of Many and June are replete not only with blissfully longer days, but often with full schedules as well: graduations, proms, end-of-school-year celebrations, outdoor parties, and various sporting events. With so much of the good stuff happening at once, we can easily descend into an unconscious state of automatic pilot, losing sight of the fortunate nature of all the busyness. As author Dan Harris aptly describes, it’s analogous to “drown

Mother’s Day is coming soon — how would you like to spend yours? Take a moment and imagine your ideal Mother’s Day, one in which you are heartily celebrated and emphatically appreciated for all that you do and for the amazing Superwoman you are: Perhaps your special day begins with waking blissfully of your own accord (no electronic or human-child alarm), sunlight streaming in through the open window, birds singing melodically in the blooming trees, as a soft, warm breeze car

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Liz Wagner, Pioneer and Owner at Crooked Row Farm Liz is a Seed Farm and Lehigh County Farmland Preservation board member, an impassioned advocate for local food and farmer collaborations, an emissary for wayward farmhands and bottle feeders, a farm blogger and, occasionally, a Lancaster Farming journalist. She also wrote an e-book a few years ago about solo lady farming. Together with her fam

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Ashley Russo is a three-time Emmy® award-winning executive producer, president of ASR Media Productions and host of The PEAK TV and St. Luke’s HealthNow. Television productions include The PEAK TV, which airs weekly in Pennsylvania and New Jersey on WFMZ-Ch. 69 and nationally on DrTV channel; St. Luke’s HealthNow, a quarterly program airing on WFMZ; as well as Roey’s Paintbox, Fireflies Musica

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Samantha Janeen is an up-and-coming media personality and the CEO / President of “Unfyltered, focusing on the WHY instead of the I.” Before deciding to start up her own company, she previously managed the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where she aided the growth and engagement of Hispanic members and Hispanic owned businesses within the Greater Lehigh Valley area. Graduating from Kutztown Unive

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Kate Elfatah, founder of HoM Consulting, a digital marketing firm, began mentoring small businesses with her expertise in digital marketing and branding in 2010, using proven techniques that have catapulted her own businesses to a national level. An early social media pioneer, Kate mastered social media marketing and turned a weekend hobby into two growing and viable businesses, achieved prima

Grab a cup of tea, read on, and learn from this wise, inspiring woman. The lowdown: Barbara Berger, CPC, CCC– Certified Career Coach and Founder of Career Wellness Partners, is a certified career coach and former hiring manager who helps individuals improve career self-awareness, navigate career transition, and create more meaningful and genuine work lives. She has a private coaching practice in Allentown but works with people all over the country. She also speaks about how c

I am pleased to announce a brand new Q&A series on my blog. I gathered some awesome empowered women and asked them to share answers to questions I would want to know (and guessed you might, too). Sign up for my email list — you won’t want to miss it. Get ready to grab a cup of tea and learn from wise, inspiring women — the Q&A starts soon! I also had the privilege of my own interview with The Morning Call Career Corner, where I discuss Women’s Mindful Leadership and The Nat

To let go means giving up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome. ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn benwhite/unsplash.com Feeling overwhelmed with the holiday busyness right about now? If you think you have it rough, imagine what it’s like for dear Mrs. Claus — the mess left behind each evening by hundreds of creative elves, the heaping mounds of sugar-laden treats Santa consumes, the (impossible to remove) soot on his suit, or, (perhaps a bi

unsplash.com The season of gratitude is upon us. Like many of us, I am most thankful for the simple things in life: good health, dear family and friends, engaging work, and plenty — of food, shelter, fresh air, and the many privileges often take for granted. I am grateful for my clients who teach me just as much as I do them about life, resilience, and authenticity; my children — those little Zen masters who can bring me to my knees with alternating utter frustration or deep

unsplash.com 3 Free Sample Mindful Breaks from Breathe, Mama, Breathe: SNAP Break, Look into their Eyes, and Coffee Meditation at mindbodynetwork.com http://mindbodynetwork.com/library/book/breathe-mama-breathe-5-minute-mindfulness-for-busy-moms How to deal with your crazy-mom anger at boomdash.com How to proactively avert a mommy meltdown, model mindful communication, and repair the rupture when frustration wins out. https://boomdash.com/the-in-between/inspire/mom-parenting-

As the slower pace of summer fades and the school year begins, life can quickly take on a frantic and overwhelming vibe. Here is a brief exercise to prioritize what is most important, creating welcome bits of space in the day for a breather: Life as Pie Exercise On a piece of paper pencil two large, same-sized circles side by side. In the first circle, divide up the general areas of your life into pie pieces according to how much time you currently spend with each over the co

photo by unsplash.com How are you feeling about winter, right about now? Many of us in the Northeast are struggling with the winter doldrums, as the sun has made only a rare appearance. What about shaking things up a bit with a simple, healthy challenge? Not your typical clean-eating or 20 push-ups-daily challenge, but a 7-day mindful break challenge? Mindful breaks are opportunities and reminders to pause and bring your full attention to the present moment at any point in th