Happy Guy Podcast

The important things in life may require different demands from us that we are not used to giving, but we know that because we want better, we have to do better. In this session, I want to help you learn to get the important things done in life even when you don't feel like doing them.

You have multiple roles you play in life. They could be an employee/employer, parent, spouse, volunteer, friend, sibling, or any other role you have. With us wearing so many hats it's easy to become overwhelmed by all that we need to do and accomplish in life as we shift from role to role on a daily basis. In this session, we discuss how to stay managing every life role and hold on to your wholeness at the same time.

How you manage yourself in your marriage plays a big part in the health and experience of the relationship. In marriage, we get a choice to be a peacemaker or a peacebreaker. In this episode, we hit on 3 ways to keep in mind when creating peace in your marriage.

What have you done in the past or what could you do that after you did it would cause you to feel refilled, refreshed, and refueled. In this session, we take a look at what I do to get my soul restored and how you should take advantage of every opportunity to restore your soul.

Growth can stretch you and be uncomfortable at times, but it's a part of reaching any goal in life. People who have accomplished their desires had to find a way to fall in love with the journey that leads them to the outcome. They found a way to make the process of getting there a place of joy in spite of the discomfort. In this session, you'll learn how you can find joy in your journey.

It's good for us to break away from the constant demand of doing "life stuff" and take a minute or more to relax. Taking regular breaks from going, going, going, helped us in so many ways. In this session, we will hit on 4 reasons why you need to make it a must for you to take more breaks now.

We have all been on the receiving end of hurt and offense at the hands of others. These are easy times to slip into feeling bitter towards others, but this really won't help us at all. In today's session, we learn 3 ways to avoid bitterness.

If you are a parent, you absolutely love your kid(s), but there are sometimes when they can be a handful. Or, maybe you find yourself venting frustration towards them from a bad day you may have had or the challenges in life you face. Its time for us to rescue our peace as a parent and build a healthy bond with our kids. I'll share with you 5 ways we can parent our ever-evolving kids while maintaining a high level of personal peace.

Getting clear about your life brings clarity to your focus and actions and also removes anxiety and uncertainty about the future. In today's session, we discuss 3 ways to get clear about what you really want in life.

The feeling of inadequacy tries to convince you that you are lacking ins some way or that you are not good enough to have the best in life. Any feelings of inadequacy hold zero weight when you know who you are and you only know who you are by knowing what God says about you.

Do you ever feel like you want to control every single aspect of your life and the more you realize that you can't control things, the more frustrated it seems life is? No worries. In this video, I share with you why it's important for you to control the controllables.

Change is a part of life, whether it’s expected or unexpected. The good thing is that we can find good in times of change.

Sometimes life gets a little uncomfortable and discouraging. When we experience times like this, it's the perfect chance for us to tap into God’s uncommon comfort. In today’s session, we unpack what uncommon comfort is and how you can live in it today.

Self-critiquing can be helpful when done in a healthy way, but it can be damaging if we create a habit of negative self-criticism. In this session, we expose and learn how to avoid the dangers of negative self-criticism.

Bringing real positive and productive change into our lives means that we must commit to undoing the beliefs and ideas that have held us in our current struggles. In this episode and our first session in the "UN" series, we discuss how to make that happen.

Have you ever been at a point where you really want something, any goal or accomplishment, but you really didn’t feel like doing anything to get it? It’s like I want to eat, but I don’t want to cook or even drive to a restaurant. I want the amazing body, I hate going to the gym. I want a great relationship but I’m too busy to give any attention to anyone else. We want to stop stress in our lives, but don’t want to initiate new habits and choices to discipline ourselves. It’s like sometimes we want the goods without the growth! Well let's discover the one factor that changes all of that.

The power of God's strength within you is greater than anything that comes at you. Release God's strength and experience unshakable peace.

How often do you express appreciation in life? Out of the 60,000 thoughts that rush through your mind every day, how many of them are packed with an intense amount of gratitude, appreciation, praise, and thankfulness? For most people, their daily thoughts consist of what they have to do that day, complaints about what has gone wrong or what could go wrong, and little sprinkles of happy thoughts here and there. But what if we decided to become super intentional about how we think and prioritize grateful thoughts into our thinking schedule. How would that shift your mindset? How would that influence your feelings and emotions? How would it inspire your actions? Just shifting to intentional gratitude could literally change how you live your life.

Studies show that we have somewhere around 60,000 thoughts per day! That’s a lot of thinking. The problem that most of us run into is that we are rehearsing negative, defeating, destructive, and toxic thoughts over and over, day in and day out, in our minds. We think about how bad things are. Wonder why things are not going our way. We find ourselves complaining about our lives. And at times feeling negativity about other people. How can we break the cycle? How can we live every intentionally playing the most positive, faith-filled, hopeful, beautiful, fun, and loving thoughts in our minds and maintain them throughout our day? Let's find out in this episode.

We have all been there. You know those times when we are not being the happiest, hopeful, life speaking person. Times when we could care less about how we make some feel by our words and actions. Times when we allow unchecked negative thoughts and feelings to take over our soul. One of the most important things we have to become aware of is that we have enemies that threaten the wellbeing of our souls. Now I’m not talking about people. These enemies are intangible and invisible tyrants of our minds. Let's identify them and discover how to defend ourselves against them.

Have you ever felt guilty for feeling love for yourself? Or have other people made it seem like self-love was negative? If we want to really free ourselves from the emotional struggles and trauma we experience in life, and begin to thrive in the love, joy, peace, and happiness God promises; then we must restructure our mindset about how love works in us and in our lives.

Sometimes we find ourselves in similar situations where we get paralyzed mentally and emotionally, by the poisonous perspectives we have about life. We find ourselves, believing the worse, thinking the worse, expecting the worse, and then wonder why we get the worst outcomes. It starts with something so simple but so important to how you handle life and avoid the negative inner attacks that set off stress. It's called PERSPECTIVE!

Our hearts can be disturbed by life, but Jesus gave us a promise of the kind of peace that blows the mind of this world. Let's unpack it in this very special first edition of The Unstressed Soul Micropods.

Our emotions can seem to be so wobbly at times. We can switch from calm to fear in a split second. We can shift from happiness to frustration from a simple scroll through our social media feed. We feel this mix of emotions daily and it causes us to build the habit of being pushed around by how we feel instead of harnessing our emotions and guiding them to help us in our lives. In this session, we learn 3 actions we can take to stay on top of our emotions and direct them to help us and not hurt us.

Sometimes it can seem like our family life is stuck on level 100. With the kids constantly arguing, chores that need to be done, marital misunderstandings, and the tons of other tasks and responsibilities we have in life; things can get overwhelming pretty fast. In this session I want to give you 4 simple and practical things that you can do as a family starting right now, to disrupt the patterns of stress that you all may experience in daily family life

In part 1 we did a deep dive into what our self-image is and how it affects every part of our lives. We learned how it places a cap on our ability to accomplish what God places in our heart to do. In this session, we will get into what it will take to reset, renew, and reshape our self-image to align with God's plan for us.

Imagine that you had a friend who treated you like you were worthless. What if they constantly told you everything they didn’t like about you and highlighted all of your mistakes? How long would you stay friends with that person? Not very long I’m guessing. But what if that person was yourself? In this part 1 session of How to reset your self-image, I want to share with you what your self-image is and how we can begin to adopt a healthier self-image and renew it to serve us instead of sabotage us.

Does life seem broken? Has it seemed like if something could go wrong it will? Well, maybe its time for us to break the brokenness cycle and toss in a ton of wholeness. This episode is all about the "pursuit of wholeness", how it looks in your life, and what it actually means for you.

Fear tries to creep into our lives from so many different places; our own imaginations, opinions of others, media, and past experiences. It wants you to feel safe by feeling unsafe. Fear always like "You can do it, but you'll probably fail, so don't do it"! In this lesson, we discover how do we break fear and how we can dump fear and build faith to pursue and obtain the growth we really want in life.

A lot of people think that “Stressing Out” is just some negative emotion that they are feeling, but the truth is that there’s a lot more going on that we aren’t even aware of. There is an entire world of chaos that’s taking place when we stay in constant stress mode. In this session, we take a look at what’s happening within us when stress is doing it’s worse.

Do you have a habit that you have been trying to break for a long time? We all have habits, some good and some bad. One bad habit that a lot of people have is the habit of stressing out. Today we hack into 3 foundational habits of living unstressed and how you can apply them starting now!

If you want to experience supernatural peace more often and you want to have a go-to plan to avoid unnecessary stress; you have to fully execute the power of self-stewardship. In this episode, we explore what self-stewardship is in the context of living unstressed.

You will be challenged in life and some challenges can be tougher than others. But if you want to always be positioned to overcome those challenges and grow beyond them, you have to learn how to GET GROUNDED. What I want to share with you today are 3 actions to help you get and stay grounded in tough and challenging times.

There are so many reasons why it's a good idea to not let stress jump on your back. In this episode, we discuss 3 of my personal favorite reasons why I think that living stressed is a bad idea. If you want to experience greater peace and create better results in your life. You have to learn how to extract stress from your life on purpose.

If you want to out-smart stress, then being prepared will put you ahead of the game. In this Unstressed Soul session, we are on Day 5 of the 5 Day Stress Detox which is detoxing our day. If you haven’t done so already, head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to grab the free 5 Day Stress Detox ebook that goes along with these sessions.

Your day is probably filled with a lot of “to-do’s”. Sometimes just thinking about what you have to do makes you tired and can trigger stress. In this Unstressed Soul session, we are on Day 4 of the 5 Day Stress Detox which is detoxing our actions. If you haven’t done so already, head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to grab the free 5 Day Stress Detox ebook that goes along with these sessions.

We use words to communicate and express our feelings and thoughts but whether you know it or not your word choice has a huge impact on how you well you handle stress. In this Unstressed Soul session, we are on Day 3 of the 5 Day Stress Detox which is detoxing our Words. If you haven’t done so already, head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to grab the free 5 Day Stress Detox ebook that goes along with these sessions.

We all like feeling good, but stress is definitely not a state that triggers those good and happy emotions. Your emotions can empower you to take bold and confident actions or stop any attempts to make progress in your life. Stress-filled emotions block your ability to experience peace, to think clearly, and only motivate you to feel more of the same. In this Unstressed Soul session, we are on Day 2 of the 5 Day Stress Detox which is detoxing our emotions. If you haven’t done so already, head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to grab the free 5 Day Stress Detox ebook that goes along with these sessions.

Do you ever notice your thoughts bouncing from one stressful thought to the next? It seems like all you can think about is how tasking the demands and responsibilities are that are placed on you, how there is never time to rest, or wondering how the challenges you’re currently facing will turnout. In this Unstressed Soul session, we are on Day 1 of the 5 Day Stress Detox which is detoxing our thoughts. If you haven’t done so already, head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to grab the free 5 Day Stress Detox ebook that goes along with these sessions.

Dealing with Stress can be a battle. For some of us, this battle rages on all too often. I want to break the cycle of your stress and give you simple tools you can use over the next 5 days to detox stress from your life. In this SPECIAL episode, we start the intro session to my 5 Day Stress Detox Class. Make sure you head over to chadmcgriff.com/stressdetox to get the accompanying ebook to these sessions.

Here's a preview of what is show is all about. Welcome to The Unstressed Soul Podcast!