The Better Life Better Work Show

Healing and Hope after Hard Journies with Colette Nies Von Hanna Navigating Life's Challenges: A Conversation with Colette Nies Von Hanna Join me for a conversation with long-time family friend Colette Nies Von Hanna, who shares her journey and insights on being human. Colette, an organic gardener, socio-ecological feminist theologian, and energy researcher from New […] The post Healing & Finding Hope After the Hard: Colette Nies Von Hanna, Socio-Ecological Feminist Theologian appeared first on Allison Crow.

Welcome back! In today's episode, I delve into lessons I've learned from one of my favorite teachers and approaches ~ Gabor Maté and Compassionate Inquiry.  I explore his method as a facilitator, the importance of gaining consent, his views on addiction as attempts to solve suffering, and authenticity versus attachment. Reflecting on his teachings, I […] The post Lessons Learned from Gabor Mate & Compassionate Inquiry appeared first on Allison Crow.

Allison shares her personal journey of reinventing herself and her business, discussing her struggles, coping mechanisms, and the need for genuine connections. She emphasizes the importance of understanding one's needs and cycles, challenging toxic individualism, and finding what works authentically for oneself in business and life. Key Topics and Timestamps 00:00 Welcome to the Live […] The post Insights From Re-Blooming My Business appeared first on Allison Crow.

  It's Road Riff time – Ease from the Inside Out. I've had some really interesting, unusual resistance around content creation and I didn't have an “episode,” but I did have a drive into town  Stream of Consciousness with a Purpose and More at Ease I want to be more at ease this year from […] The post EASE From The Inside Out appeared first on Allison Crow.

Yikes – Is it Procrastination or Parts- I'm jumping back into making podcast episodes for you!  I'm just going to allow myself to be imperfect in getting back into the routine I love creating content for y'all  I've always loved creating content for y'all and I've had some procrastination parts come up lately I had […] The post Procrastination or Parts: The Mind Fu&k of Starting Again appeared first on Allison Crow.

Hello Hello Humans! I feel like a little kid getting back on a bicycle, It's been a couple of months since I podcasted.  Bug Soup is the time during chrysalis when the caterpillar disintegrates and devolves  and physically, materially turns into an gooey mess before it regenerates into the butterflies that bless us all.  It's […] The post Bug Soup & Updates appeared first on Self Trust Studio.

Hello Humans! Thank you for your grace while I took some time and space.  For the last four years I have been in writing practice with my publisher and write as a group One of my former clients and now friend and fellow author colleague has released her book with Compassionate Mind Collaborative Publishing. I […] The post A Two Fridas Reading from Art is About Being Whole: A Memoir By Cindy Ingram appeared first on Self Trust Studio.

Hello Human Podcast Listeners! Today I want to share a little behind the scenes ADHD update. This is kind of personal. It's a behind the scenes episodes of being a small business owner, being a coaching practice owner who is also navigating the Wild Edges of Being Human. Many of you know the diagnosis of […] The post An ADHD Update appeared first on Allison Crow.

Hello Humans, another Road Riff Episode! I use to consider myself an optimist.  I still tend to have some of these qualities. I tend to see the best in people. I'm able to see the best in people. Sometimes to my detriment. My identity for many many years was built around making other people feel […] The post Why I'm No longer an Optimist And What I Am Instead appeared first on Allison Crow.

Emotions, ADHD & Motivation – A Convergence of Ideas Hi Y'all! I've been meaning to do an ADHD podcast for over a year and I saw this quote today by Tami Simon from Sounds True, “Sometimes only the answer is found through living life.” When I give myself the time and space to live life, […] The post Emotions, ADHD & Motivation – A Convergence of Ideas appeared first on Allison Crow.

Episode 204 Heather Doyle Frasier: The Practice of Compassionate Writing Writer, Coach, Renaissance Woman, Lover of Books Publisher of Compassionate Mind Collaborative and a singer.  After having worked in the traditional publishing industry as a development editor, Heather saw the humanity missing from the industry. Meet my book coach, publisher, and friend.  Writing is such […] The post Heather Doyle Frasier: The Practice of Compassionate Writing appeared first on Allison Crow.

  Episode 203 – The Practice of Connection over Control   Another road riff episode! It's Sunday morning, 8:23 am as I record this and I'm heading out to my therapeutic horseback riding lessons. After a difficult week, I've got some insights and lessons settling into my bones.  There might be a few tears!  Y'all […] The post The Practice of Connection over Control appeared first on Allison Crow.

  Hello Humans, I'm here with one of my mentors and teachers Chris Zydel. She is the Wild Heart Queen of Creative Juices Arts and has an wonderful book out,  Conversations with the Brush: Wisdom Tales from the Intuitive Painting Heart Today we're having a specific conversation about Becoming Crone in the context of being […] The post Becoming Crone w/ Chris Zydel appeared first on Allison Crow.

Hello Humans, today we are jamming with fellow reinventor Cindy Ingram. Cindy has a book coming out later in the year and today we are going to talk a little bit more about reinvention.  Reinvention shows up on the outside but it's usually because things happen on the inside.  Originally choosing her work based on […] The post Cindy Ingram: Reinventing Your Business appeared first on Allison Crow.

Dreaming in Spanish with Sara Alvarado (and writing your story). Live, it's Allison Crow and Sara Alvarado! We are going to be talking about telling your story and Sara's new book, Dreaming In Spanish: An Unexpected Love Story in Puerto Vallarta. I adored this book! And I really did start thinking in Spanish after reading […] The post Dreaming in Spanish & Writing Your Story With Sara Alvarado appeared first on Allison Crow.

Over the last 18 years, specifically coaching, I have worked with so many business owners. Thousands and thousands of business owners everywhere from brand new business owners learning how to do things to business owners in achievement phase. These days I tend to work with extremely experienced high revenue business owners.  I also work with […] The post It's not about the Money or is it? A math message for heart-centered business owners. appeared first on Allison Crow.

  Hello Humans!  Who else has been wild edging through transitions and wobbles!  I made you a check in episode – to let you know a bit of the behind the scenes as we sort our shit out with laughter and compassion! Lots of little bite sized good things in this episode! Enjoy!  Love, Allison  […]

Welcome! Recently I made a giant decision in my business AND I've been known to make giant decisions. The last time was in 2011 and the time before that was in 2009. I do remember the last two times and I remember the emotional difficulty of the last two times. No, I'm not freaking out […]

I'm Allison Crow and we are interrupting your often frequently deep and emotional philosophical personal development contact for a business check. This is a podcast for business owners. Welcome to those who aren't business owners. If you listen, that's fun! I'm gonna be discussing what I'm noticing in the market, right!? What I'm noticing in […]

Hey, this is Allison and this is a two part episode. The first part I recorded as a road riff, and it's about the magic of getting out of the house. Then stay tuned for what the Magic Act really was. I wanna tell you what the magic was and it wasn't what we expect. […]

Ah, the imperfection of the human experience. You are not doing it wrong if it feels hard, or bad, or disconnected.  You are not screwing up your kids, you didn't marry the wrong person, and your business is not destined for failure. I see so many clients struggle with the normal human imperfection of life […]

This is the wild edge of being human, a podcast for business owners. I wanna talk about recovering from difficult seasons and transitioning out of a difficult season, and wouldn't it be nice if just one day the hard stopped and the ease started again? But that's not generally how it works. Y'all know that […]

Hello, Soul-full humans. Today we are talking about coping skills and self-trust. Coaching is an art and science of behavior. Wouldn't it be fun if we were actually as easy as change your thinking, change your life, and yes, I used to believe it was that simple for many years. I'm so sorry. I didn't […]

Today's episode is about the practice of tending. I wanna tell you a story of how I went from depression to the most creative productivity in a very holy way, not a way of scarcity. Though I might feel a bit rusty and stiff, tending with love to the practices that invoke blessing outside and […]

Hey Hey, This is Episode 190 and it's the truck episode. Yup, I'm in the truck.  Today's episode on this little road riff is about validation. I've had some pretty profound and powerful insights about validation over the last couple years and I come to you as someone whose little parts inside were so hungry […]

Hello, Soul-Full People. Today I have something special for you. I am doing some recordings for my marketing team that are excerpts from my book: Unarmored, Finding Home In The Wild Edges Of Being Human While there won't be an audio book for a while, the hard back and digital copies of the book are […]

Hello human, it's Allison. I see this thing that so many people are doing. I do it to myself too, and I'm working on changing this thing. I just see so much suffering on top of suffering and I see so much judgment. There's a couple of core and identity beliefs I hear come through […]

This one is good! I got some good shit for you today. Okay Allison, what does the Wild Edge of Being Human have to do with business? This is the way it's always been and it's taken me almost 18 years to get some language for it. I don't know if you know, but I […]

Hey, hey, Soul-Full people on The Wild Edge of Being Human. Today I want to talk about the illustrious alignment. I wanna talk about today is some bullshit I see people doing to themselves in the personal development industry. I get it. I've done it to myself and I'm completely over it. It's about pointing […]

I've got some stories I want to tell y'all. This story has to do with the number one thing I see every day in the service based business world that service based business owners are not doing.  Oprah ain't coming. Oprah ain't coming. No one is coming to pick you out of obscurity and so […]

Let's talk about The Wild Edge Of Being Human. Hello, soul-full listeners. My name is Allison Crow and I'm just gonna hop into it. Today I'm gonna share a little bit about the zeitgeist of The Wild Edge of Being Human but first I wanna tell you where I see my people suffering. I see […]

Good Morning Soul-Full Business Owners! It's Allison Crow, I'm recording episode number 183 of my podcast and my podcast is debuting with a new name: The Wild Edge of Being Human, A Podcast for Soul-Full Small Business Owners I've known that this episode needed to go out today, and I've been shoulding all over myself […]

Okay, There are two parts to this episode. There is the before Santa Fe part, there is the after Santa Fe part and I do not find it coincidental. There's before heart attack and after heart attack. And so this is a two part episode. All in one episode. This is the final episode of […]

This is episode 181 of the Better Life Better Work show. I'm Alison Crow and I am here in my office, not in my truck, miraculously. I am in my office painting and drawing for my forthcoming book. We have a December 6th publish date. It'll be ready before then, but I didn't wanna publish […]

I would like to have calm and happy. Calm is one of my gateway, entry ways, of cultivating self energy, of cultivating source energy & of cultivating presence. As many of you know, but I'm gonna go ahead and repeat over and over and over again, for those of us, all of us in the […]

What's up? I wanna share something. This is a recording of a video I did last year that popped up in my memories on Facebook and the second I started listening I knew I had to share this content with you because I still see it happen. I know this episode will help you and hopefully […]

It's another car episode.  Today I wanna just do a little riff on Unarmored, Unarmored Being, Unarmored Leadership.  I am definitely no master, but I am committed to the path. I'm gonna tell you what y'all… You commit to an authentic soulful life. I don't know what it means for you.  I can tell you […]

Here comes another car episode! Last week was intense. Last week was the week that the Supreme Court of the United States really overreached and not just one decision, Roe V Wade, but in many decisions.  It just shows me how much we trust “the systems.”  We trust faith. We trust faith because we were […]

This is Alison Crow and Karen Goldfinger Baker and this is episode number 176 of the Better Life Better Work Show. I have one of my favorite unfuckery guests here. We're gonna be talking about Leadership Trauma. I have my own version of what leadership trauma is because I experienced it and Karen has a […]

I'm here with Dr. Erin M Baker,  Dr. E is a fellow coach and this episode is another IFS Jam – where we just visit and exchange ideas and stories about Internal Family Systems Coaching, nuances we are learning through experience, and valuable updates on how this work is serving our clients and ourselves.  So […]

  I have a quick episode for you today. I want to share an important IFS tip, especially for those who have kind of doing their own lay work and you haven't had official training.  This is one of the best, most important things that my very first IFS coach slash therapist shared with me […]

Ep 173 of the Better Life Better Work Show and today's podcast topic is about why I made the shift full-on into IFS coaching. Yes, IFS is used in therapeutic settings.  It originated years ago in the clinical realm and has since spread to education, medicine, business, and coaching.   When my coach/therapist/leadership coach introduced me […]

Today this little episode is about what gives me hope when the world is shit and it doesn't come from a place of airy fairy, it comes from a place of sitting with despair.  Yesterday was a day where physically and emotionally and in the world I felt despair and today I feel totally different […]

Hey, this is Alison Crow, welcome to the Better Life Better Work Show. This is episode number 171. It's been a while since I've recorded an official podcast. I've done some driving in the car updates and honestly I feel wobbly and out of practice and there's a lot going on in the world and […]

Hey, it's going to be another on the road podcast with Alison Crow, your favorite life and business coach, your favorite Self Leadership coach. I know that I've been a little AWOL and here's what we're going to do today. I'm going to give you an update. I feel like sharing with you some real […]

Last night I went to bed, um, feeling the weight of the world, feeling the experience of caring too much and not being able to help enough.  I've talked to a couple of clients this week that have also felt the weight of responsibility and have so much going on in both their personal lives […]

I feel something strange and what I feel that is strange is because of my one thing, a slight perspective shift, nurturing practices. Some may call them habits but habits feel a little too harsh for me. You can't really change your thinking and it's really difficult to change your actions when your nervous system […]

Welcome to another riding in the car at the episode with Allison.  So it is, this is episode number 167 Everybody is struggling with something you don't know about.  There's a lot of stuff going on so I just want to acknowledge your humanness with so much compassion.  I see it everywhere, human beings trying […]

Hey, Hey, I have an important distinction for my recovering overachiever, high performing Gen X business people who also grew up or maybe are still in faith-based communities. Faith versus trust.  We mix those two up. We mix faith and trust up. Faith is something we have in religion. Faith is something we have in […]

Hello Hello!  So here's the thing… y'all know. Y'all know, don't you?  You know, you know exactly what you need to do to hit the result you need. Let's tell some fucking truth to yourself about why you're not getting the results. Tell yourself the truth about why you're not getting the results that you […]

Hey, Hey, it's been a while since I recorded a podcast. I pretty much have taken all of February off… little life drama in a couple of areas going on and I just made space for myself to not be constantly creating. So this is episode number 164 and today we're going to talk about […]