The Improvised Life with Katie Goodman | How To Create A Courageous, Adventurous, Meaningful Life, Driven By Purpose

Six months ago we had some things come into our life that were difficult. Extremely difficult. We lost someone unexpectedly and then someone we know was diagnosed with a difficult illness. On top of that, there were some medium-evocative stuff: my kid moved into his junior year of high school which made me start thinking about empty nesting…I was noticing how it takes long for my body to recover after a hard workout… and recently a lot of my work has been changing, due to the pandemic. We are empathizing with the extreme suffering out there for the victims families and for healthcare workers. The theme that holds all of these together is Grieving.

OMG, Y'ALL. THIS. IS. A. TIME. BUT WE ARE HERE TO HELP YOU. Sick of being "thrown" all the time? Worried about the worst? Katie is going help you learn how to feel comfortable in the unknown, and embrace uncertainty. Join Katie online for her monthly, all-women membership program! It's fun! It's supportive! It's transformative! And it's all from your home in pajamas! Katie will teach you to use new and creative skills to navigate change and joyfully discover possibilities during this time in the unknown! Go to KatieGoodmanSpeaking.com and click membership! Or just email us at info@katiegoodman.com

I wanted to share this interview with you all, in this challenging time. It's an interview I conducted this past week with my dear friend Laura van Dernoot Lipsky of TraumaStewardship.com. She'a an expert in caring for people who care for people in trauma—like nurses and first-responders. I'd wanted to talk with her because I've been feeling so much concern for my friends and family in health care, and like all of us I've been disturbed by what we've been reading about the workers in health care in Italy, Seattle, NYC and beyond. I wanted her advice on how to support them. In talking to her, though, I came to realize that her methods for supporting caretakers is also excellent advice for how we all can support OURSELVES through this. I hope you find this as helpful as I did. And of course please share it with anyone whom you think might benefit from it. Stay safe, and look out for one another, Katie

Why entrepreneurs always move onto the next thing ("Ooo! Squirrel!") and why you should not stay to slog it out, even when your mother's like, "But you were finally making money!" Does this sound like you? You're bored easily, you always have new ideas, you're not sure which to pick, you start things and don't always (maybe never?) work to completion before you get excited about some shiny new object. And you're making everyone around you, um, crazy? You are a creator, you do a million things because that's your gift to the world. Want to stop feeling bad about that?? Listen in!   COOL STUFF: To learn more about how to teach Katie's Improvisation For Life workshops, check out her Certification Program, go HERE! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats,  Or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop  Or Keynote Speech. Click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon  

SHOW NOTES: So many of you are interested in how on earth to stop doing the job you hate and create an entrepreneurial life where you are the boss of yourself, where you're creating a career that will sustain you financially, and one in which you loooooove your work. I've taught a class for several years called Quit Your Day Job and in that class I've noticed over and over so many similarities about the fears of becoming an entrepreneur and today I want to help you guys work through some of them and see not only if the entrepreneurial life is for you, but to also help you save tons of wasted time reinventing the wheel and having difficult fits and starts, when you could really be moving ahead to making your career dream a reality much faster and with less stress and anxiety. COOL STUFF: To learn more about how to teach Katie's Improvised Life workshops, check out her Certification Program, go HERE! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats,  Or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop  Or Keynote Speech. Click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon

Today I interview best-selling author Sarah Knight on her new book, Calm The F*uck Down: How to control what you can and accept what you can't so you can stop freaking out and get on with your life. Join us for a funny and useful conversation on how to really make your stressful life work! COOL STUFF: To learn more about how to teach Katie's Improvised Life workshops, check out her Certification Program, go HERE! And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking HERE! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats,  Or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop  Or Keynote Speech. Click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon   ABOUT SARAH KNIGHT: Sarah Knight is the New York Timesbestselling author of the No Fucks Given Guides, including her latest, Calm the Fuck Down: How to control what you can and accept what you can't so you can stop freaking out and get on with your life. Sarah Knight's first book, The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck,has been published in more than twenty languages, and her TEDx talk, “The Magic of Not Giving a Fuck,” has more than four million views. All of the books in her No Fucks Given Guides series have been international bestsellers, including Get Your Shit Together,which was on the New York Timesbestseller list for sixteen weeks. Her writing has also appeared in Glamour, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Red, Refinery29, and elsewhere. After quitting her corporate job to pursue a freelance life, she moved from Brooklyn, New York, to the Dominican Republic, where she currently resides with her husband, two feral rescue cats, and a shitload of lizards. You can learn more and sign up for her newsletter at nofucksgivenguides.com, follow Sarah on Twitter and Instagram @MCSnugz, and follow the books @NoFucksGivenGuides (Facebook and Instagram) and @NoFucksGiven (Twitter).

Jesus was a liberal?? Comedian, actor and political broadcaster, John Fugelsang is a progressive comic icon. A dear friend of mine and a co-conspirator in all things political comedy, including many shows we've done together, John shares funny stories and insights from a career in comedy and improvising on the air. SHOW NOTES: John on my other podcast “UnF*ck It Up with Katie Goodman” a few years ago: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/john-fugelsang-interview-comedy-politics-and-jesus/id516069241?i=1000117180835&mt=2 John hosts "Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121.   His movie “Dream On”: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/dream-on/ His website: http://www.johnfugelsang.com “America is an old couch, Trump is a black light.”(get the magnet on John's store!): https://johnfugelsangstore.com/collections/home/products/blacklight-magnet-metal Link to John's stand up set at the top of the show (LINK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtLYCglvpVA And one other really funny set called “You Know How You Always Have That One Racist Cousin?”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3CO9SgW5bQ Katie on Adam Carolla's show and John Fugelsang's SIRIUS XM shows. Go here and scroll to the bottom: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com/podcast FACEBOOK & TWITTER: @jfugelsang   KATIE'S COOL STUFF: Click to learn more about Katie's Improvised Life Coaching Certification School. And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it FREE by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's upcoming Women's Retreats, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon

Join me and Dan Savage today talking about the It Gets Better Project. This is an interview I did with Dan on my former podcast a few years ago and I just LOVE this interview. Dan and his husband Terry created this project to save LGBTQ lives, to support the community with advice, coping mechanisms and connection and support. Dan has really improvised his life, thinking outside the box to really achieve something that had never previously been done and It Gets Better changed the culture in our country. Find Dan here: https://www.thestranger.com/savage-love https://www.savagelovecast.com Twitter: @fakedansavage FB: @dansavage Insta: @dansavage COOL STUFF: And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's upcoming Women's Retreats, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com And click to learn more about Katie's Improvised Life Coaching Certification School. Katie's book on Amazon

Clearly Sean and I have nothing whatsoever in common. We had a hard time connecting about comedy and improv on another podcast we met on and so we decided to put ourselves through the misery of disagreeing on everything again on my podcast. It was a sad sad day that we met and we hope it never happens again. We have together made the world a worse place filled with apathy and no enthusiasm for our work.   SHOW NOTES: Sean Kleier is an actor and comedian and writer, known for Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018), Odd Mom Out (2015) and The Affair (2014). Twitter and Insta are both @SeanKleier Here's Sean's company: http://www.meetmotiv.com/ And here's the Independence Day speech comedy video we mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phKNKP2c2Xw Represent.Us is the non-profit Sean works with. For an overview, here are some videos he helped make for them:  https://represent.us/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4HRDbkp4Ww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiVl5r6zcnQ   COOL STUFF: And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop  or Keynote Speech, Ffor everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon

Kelly Carlin, daughter of the comedian George Carlin, is one hell of an insightful woman. One of my dear friends, and long time deep-dive-introspective-conversation-buddy, Kelly and I dish on our comedy process, getting our asses handed to us by great directors, and why after 40 we didn't give a sh*t about what anyone else thinks. COOL STUFF: And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop  or Keynote Speech, click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon SHOW NOTES: Kelly Carlin is known for delving into deep topics with humor and grace while wearing many hats. She is an acclaimed author, performer, podcaster and SiriusXM radio show host, who also leads self-empowerment programs for those looking for a path to their authentic life.  www.kellycarlin.com Twitter: @kelly_carlin IG: @kellycarlinishere Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellycarlinofficial/  A Carlin Home Companion is Kelly's memoir available at all booksellers. Go to: www.womenonthevergecoaching.com to learn about her year-long women's empowerment program. Go to: www.patreon.com/kellycarlin to learn about her podcast, meditation class and more. Waking from the American Dream podcast is available on all podcast outlets. The Kelly Carlin Show can be heard on SiriusXM ch. 94.

So right about now you are probably in one of two camps: either doubling down on some New year's resolutions, or you're like, um, screw that. I don't do resolutions. Perhaps you've had your heart broken by resolutions not working in the past and of course you aren't alone. HOWEVER!!! Neither resolutions nor workbooks to change your life are what I'll be talking about today! Today we are going to talk about feeling SCATTERED. Uuuugghhh. Feeling scattered is EXHAUSTING. And it totally keeps you from being creative, from feeling centered and calm, from feeling productive in a meaningful way. We gotta get our head straight because jumping to DO things in this mindset is probably going to not only waste time, but it's more like having a cigarette to calm your craving for cigarettes. That's not really going to solve things and you're gonna get cancer or at least very yellow teeth. COOL STUFF: And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats coming up, or to bring her to your company or conference for a Workshop or Keynote Speech, click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon SHOW NOTES: A good book on resolutions: MJ Ryan's This Year I Will

Today's guest, Rob Alderson, is the creative director of WeTranfer, the content sharing site. A UK born, Amsterdam-based arts and design writer, Rob and his team wanted to know how different types of creatives work (65% need quiet, 14% need noise), what gets them unblocked (musicians = um, drugs of course), how they get ideas, and what gets in their way...thought it was confidence? Turns out it's other work pressures that take up their time. So if you want your employees to be creative, stop emailing them! If you want to understand the life of a creative person, this is your jam. Listen in! Follow Rob: @robalderson (Twitter), @Wepresent (Instagram) Website: wepresent.wetransfer.com The WeTransfer Ideas Report 2018 can be found here. COOL STUFF: And now's a good time: if you haven't already done the Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet, get it by clicking here! To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, click on these underlined links or for everything in one place go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com And go here for Katie's book on Amazon

Well it's that time of year and I'm sitting next to my Buddha statue, decorating my Christmas tree, and eating Chanukah gelt. From my complicated interfaith family to yours! Enjoy this song of ours that went viral online! If you'd like to see the video, go here to YouTube or Facebook. And if you'd like to join Katie February 2 - 3, 2019 (or for a future retreat!) and a group of fun women at her Chico Hot Springs Creative Retreat where you will learn to successfully apply the tools of improvisation to cultivate more energy, spontaneity, and self-trust in everyday life. In this soul-enriching, laughter-filled program, Katie uses hands-on experiences, reflection, and group discussion to teach you how to unleash your confidence and creativity. CLICK HERE FOR THE WOMEN'S RETREAT!

Last summer I planted a flower bed with an automatic irrigation system and my Dad and I put in a soaker hose that lives underground but right near the flowers. And we attached it to the hose bib coming out of the house where the water comes out, and then ran it around all the plants. But it didn't work very well and the plants at the top of the little hill it was on started to die and we couldn't figure out why. Finally my dad figured out that we had run it from the bottom of the little hill, up to the top. So it had to work so hard to pump all that water uphill that it never made it to the top plants. So we rearranged the hose and had it start at the top and then just flow downhill to reach every plant. Duh. Now everything's growing and thriving.  Let me tell you a secret: creativity is just totally averse to struggle.When you try incredibly hard and struggle you create tension. The ideas won't come, you'll block yourself, you'll get tense and you're right brain will just shut down. Plus nobody will want to work with you! So learning that “harder is not better” is so incredibly important to a creative and successful life. And I imagine you've heard this idea before —but why is it so damn hard for us to believe it???? To get more info on Katie's online courses, Women's Retreats, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshopor Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free Gag Your Inner Critic Worksheet sent to you. Katie's book on Amazon Article About How Working Less Leads To More Productivity

I am reading a book called Life Reimagined by Barbara Bradley Haggerty, and she tells a story about her father who tried to learn French and continued to do it for years and years hardly being able to speak it well at all but just kept on doing it I assume because he liked it on some level. But the great line that her father said was: “Some things are worth doing poorly.” What a great and hilarious idea for an over achiever to ponder! To get more info on Katie's online courses,Womens Retreats, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshopor Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free Gag Your Inner Critic Worksheet sent to you. Katie's book on Amazon

Got a job interview or a big date coming up and don't want to blow it? Then listen in! We are going to work with the Inner Critic that can sabotage everything before you even get out the door! Go here and grab your free copy of Katie's Gag Your Inner Critic Worksheet – this little baby is gonna change EVERYTHING.  To get more info on Katie's online courses, Women's Retreats Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free Gag Your Inner Critic Worksheet sent to you. Katie's book on Amazon  

You know how sometimes people talk about weight-creep? Gaining pounds after having a baby or menopause? It's like that. I have self-promotion-creep. And here's the biggest question I have for all of us. Does it even work? I don't mean does it make me money, does it make us famous, does it make us “successful” whatever the hell that means. I mean if the “goal” is a happy fulfilling life, but you're doing something that makes you feel yucky and narcissistic for 95% of your day, is that successful? Clearly not. You know how 80 year olds who know some stuff always say things like, “I wish I'd known when I was your age what to worry about and what not to give a crap about.” But I want to know the difference now.Not wait until I've wasted all this time hustling for some level of achievement that is so unbelievably arbitrary anyway. I mean we all know this: if you gain some achievement you just want more. So… does this endless struggle really make any sense??? SHOW NOTES: Stanford Study on Happy Hormones: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2017/09/study-shows-how-love-hormone-spurs-sociability.html To get more info on Katie's Women's Retreats, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Click here to get Katie's free Gag Your Inner Critic Worksheet! Katie's Self-Help Fun Workbook on Amazon!

We want to take a look at what's holding us back and while some things may be obvious (a job your hate, a partner that's not pulling their weight, an unfinished project that's weighing on you), there are tons of things out there that you don't even notice are holding you down because you're so used to them. A friend of mine kept her lousy assistant for 10 years. She felt so guilty when she thought about firing her. She just couldn't do it. Well when things finally came to a head and she just had to (because the assistant just couldn't get anything done), she learned that the assistant didn't want to be there either but had hung around out of guilt herself at not wanting to abandon her boss! How ridiculous is that?! How much more joy and energy could both of those people have found in their work had they parted ways earlier?! All endings are beginnings. We hear that all the time, because it's true. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free “Gag Your Inner Critic” worksheet sent to you. Get Katie's book on Amazon

So now that we are questioning our long-held beliefs…. what the hell do we do now?? I will walk you through how to figure out the feelings you want to feel in order to be happy and fulfilled and then how to find your way onto that path, by learning how to create an authentic life that lets you feel those feelings -- here and now– not in some projected future when you have money that will let you feel good. Then we can assess whether your plan to earn money, in whatever way you are thinking, will actually lead you to get those feelings and the satisfaction you want. Cuz if you don't do this process, it's highly unlikely you'll have lasting happiness. You might get excited for a few months when you have the increase in money, but soon you'll be right back in a dissatisfied mode wondering what on earth happened?! To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free flourishing check list PDF sent to you. Get Katie's book on Amazon  

Think your beliefs about money are true? Do you believe money will solve your problems and make your life easier? Be prepared to be challenged on your beliefs on today's episode, the first of my two-part episode on your money mindset. I have talked with hundreds of people about money and their beliefs and what gets them stuck and what fires them up. Money is always involved because it's the way our world has decided to determine our worth. The word “decided” is crucial here. Meaning that money in and of itself is fairly random. We assignmeaning to it. Cuz here's the thing: if you DON'T pay attention and question your beliefs about money, you will most likely make accidental self-sabotaging decisions. You might panic and bail on projects. You might pick work you don't love out of fear that the work you love can't make money. You might work with the wrong people who don't uphold your values. You might spend all your time running headlong into something because of the value you place on it, when in fact, it's not what you really want. You might value money over everything. And that is not going to serve you. Listen in on how to excavate your beliefs so that you can tackle them once and for all To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click to listen to Katie's hilarious and moving song about the trials of parenting, called “Mama, Mama.” Click here to get Katie's free flourishing check list PDF sent to you. Get Katie's book on Amazon

People ask me all the time how I can stand the hater comments on my Youtube comedy videos and other social media. They look at me like I've got a heart of steel, but that isn't the case. If a friend or peer who I respect critiques me I take it to heart and listen and think about it. But the haters? I couldn't care less. So here's how to become someone who isn't really fazed by criticism.   To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: This is my Annual Women's Improv Self-Discovery Retreat in Montana - You Should Come Go here to get Katie's free downloadable PDF on How to Gag Your Inner Critic.

What happens when you get in the habit of following a strict schedule, and suddenly in the middle of a phone call or in the middle of reading you have an idea for a new project or a new way of doing things or someone you want to reach out to. Will you allow yourself to do that? What if on the way to the coffee machine in your office, you have a great idea, but it's not the time that you have scheduled for creative ideas. Can you let yourself to stop and follow that needs or that idea? And let's say you do follow it but after an hour you suddenly realize the idea wasn't really that great or you can't flush it out or for some reason it's a fail. Will you allow yourself to do that same off schedule Muse-following riff the next time? Or will you say no you know what that was a total waste of time and I should go back to sticking to my schedule?  Today's episode will teach you how to intentionally add spontaneity to your life. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: For your own downloadable Life Satisfaction Checklist, Click Here! Katie's book on Amazon

When my friend Sarah was in deep, deep labor, she told me, she suddenly became utterly polite, apologetic and thanked everyone around her continually. She was being the “good girl” she was conditioned to be.  I myself swore like a sailor and decided the grass was definitely greener somewhere else right at that moment. Another friend got angry at her husband and started telling him this was all his fault, and yet another woman I know let everyone else make all her decisions for her and regretted it later. When we are stripped down to our most primitive level, you'd think we'd become wonderfully clear, instinctive, a perfectly functioning animal. But clearly this isn't what happened to many of us in labor, and in the creativity workshops I lead that doesn't happen there either. What comes up is our conditioning. Don't be ruled by your conditioning. Listen in today as Katie walks you through an exercise so you can see where your “deep labor” sends you. And then finally, once you've had the delightful experience of learning about yourself, you get to play. You get to try to do it in a different way. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free GAG YOUR INNER CRITIC PDF sent to you. Katie's book on Amazon!

Uh oh. Katie's gonna force you to like something that you hate again. In improv, we have rules and gimmicks to our games. This is great news because trying to do a scene with no rules, no starting suggestion from the audience and no nuthin' is really difficult. So here's the deal. Being constrained actually makes you create better stuff. And today I'm going to tell you how to make this work for you. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshopor Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Click here to get Katie's free Gag Your Inner Critic worksheet sent to you. Katie's book on Amazon

So, what if you want to find the real you, but don't know how…Who have I become? What do I want to do with my life? What if I give it all up and become someone else? And who the hell would that be?? If you are assessing everything too much (and if you're not sure, just ask your spouse or best friend who will happily tell you if you are!), you might realize you are only ruminating and getting nowhere fast. But before you get a drastic haircut -- the half-shave is NOT a good look on you, trust me -- a better way to get a grip on who you really have become and who you want to be, is to first Get Lost. Today I'll walk you through my life-coaching system on ways to get lost that will bring confidence, adventure and engagement to your life.  To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Katie's "Mid-Life Crisis Song Katie's book on Amazon  

This episode is going to teach you how To REALLY Gain Confidence. I am not a fan of throwing all caution to the wind and saying, “If I REALLY believe in myself, this will work!” That's bull-oney… So what does work? I am a big fan of self-confidence building, no doubt. I use improv games and exercises when I life-coach, keynote speak and to get my workshop participants to see that everything they need is right inside their head: all their ideas, all the things they have to offer the world. You are unique and we need you for that. So today I will give you tons of tools and strategies to really gain self-confidence and get unstuck and get your work out there. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshopor Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Katie's book on Amazon  

Habits are going to screw you or save you. We are in Mexico and my husband Soren is standing at the sink, and he KNOWS you don't use tap water in Mexico to brush your teeth. So he's standing there, with his toothbrush in one hand and puts the tooth paste on it, then reaches for the sink, turns it on, then stops because duh Mexico water. So then turns it off, opens the bottled water, pours it over his toothpaste tooth brush, brushes his teeth and then 30 seconds later, reaches and turns on the tap to rinse, then stops because duh Mexico water. Pours the bottles water on his tooth brush to wash it off, then reaches for the tap AGAIN to get water to rinse his mouth! And then starts to crack up and then finally, uses the bottled water for time #3 because BIG DUH, Mexico water. Habits. Love 'em or hate 'em but the habitual brain is TOTALLY in charge. How to use that to your advantage without Montezuma's Revenge To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: This is my Annual Women's Improv Self-Discovery Retreat in Montana - You Should Come My Husband Soren's Chill App about Mindfulness The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg If you go to Tulum, go see this Cirque du Soleil Cuz It's Amazing  

So here's the thing I started realizing about achievement. It's completely random. I have about 5 million views of my comedy videos. So what's the goal here? 5 million and 1???? Your brain wants to believe there's some actually number that means something. Like NOW I've arrived. What if you work in an emergency room and help 100 people a week. But you feel like it's not enough. Would 110 make you a better person? It's the belief that there's this certain amount of visibility or validation or appreciation or money or fame that makes you OKAY. And I imagine a lot of you totally get what I'm saying but how many of us really question this on a regular basis. How many of us just keep plugging away stressed and striving and overworking and being disappointed that we never have enough success? To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: Katie's book on Amazon Katie's Song "Halfway Closer To Dead" Katie's blog "Promoting Myself Into Oblivion" Katie's old podcast with genocide preventer Simon Adams Schindler's list that you should see cuz it's a good movie...  

I spent the last 2 weeks trying to go cold-turkey on complaining, and I have surmised it's all about wanting things to be different than they are – which leads to suffering, as any good Buddhist will tell you. Or, your spouse might tell you, if you're lucky enough to have someone who recognizes your issues faster than you do. Lucky me. Actually, joking aside, I do mean that: lucky me. And, actually, a dose of “lucky me” gratitude is just what the self-help doctor usually orders to combat complaining. But affirmations and gratitude lists don't always work, do they? So, when we need something more, what does work? SHOW NOTES: To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com Katie's book on Amazon

Katie shows you how to create a very specific checklist of the things you need in your life that will keep you on-target to reach happiness and fulfillment so you don't run off down some crazy road trying to create a work life you think looks good, but really ends up taking you somewhere that will cause stress and disappointment. Get your ducks in a row! Create the checklist that will lead you to flourishing. To get more info on Katie's online courses, Mastermind Membership, or to bring her to your company or conference for a workshop or Keynote Speech, go here: https://katiegoodmanspeaking.com SHOW NOTES: For your own downloadable Life Satisfaction Checklist, Click Here! Katie's book on Amazon  

Join life-coach and comedian Katie Goodman to learn how to get unstuck and create a life and work you love, driven by purpose. She'll walk you through self-help tools and stories and strategies to get unblocked, unstressed, and to know what you really want so you don't run headlong down some road only to end up somewhere that won't bring you happiness. She's a comedian, speaker and life-coach who blends both her skills in comedy and coaching to teach you how to use the tools of improv comedy in every day life. Check out her on-line courses and speaking at www.KatieGoodmanSpeaking.com