The Uplift

Beyond self care it's time for rest, healing, and liberation! Have you been taking care of everyone but you? Do you have a sneaking suspicion that you are living a life for the approval for others? It is time for a change. And it's never too late! Today is the first day of your new era

Every moment is precious and it is about time you savor every bit! You are worthy of every pleasure life has to offer. So get yours! We can enjoy each moment just by living it fully. Join in to get your life with Tessa and Cy right now!

The world is changing fast and we can find joy with every new advancement. Let's choose excitement and embrace the new technologies that are coming - whether we feel ready or not. Join Tessa and Cy as they explore living in this time in history as tech is outpacing all of our expectations. Let's find how we thrive together through these exciting times - because together anything is possible!

Do you ever think back on all the lived experiences your younger self had to endure without the wisdom and mindset you have now? How can we show up today to be the person our 5 year old self needs us to be for them? Join Tessa & Cy for a deep dive into our own psyches and find the path back to your inner child. That child awaits and needs your attention, love, and care. And we are here to care for one another as we take this brave journey together.

Do you ever stop to notice how much pressure society puts on you to act a certain way, to be a certain way all the time? Well that's socialization baby and we are here to expose it and let you know you can pave your own path! Join us to learn practical ways to spot socialization efforts in progress, stop them in their tracks, and find your way back to yourself. Because you are phenomenal!

The perceived sense of urgency in our society, is often times self-imposed and unnecessary. Liberate yourself by seeing the illusion for what it is and choosing to rebel against it. You deserve a life of peace. Set your intention with us today.

Unsolicited insults? No, we are not doing that right now! Join Tessa and Cy in a convo on how to protect your fortress of happiness from the many negative things the world has the gull to offer us when we did not request nor do we have any intention of receiving! Let's show the world how to operate with consent, shared perspectives, and true kindness to ourselves and others. Because you are a phenomenal being worthy of happiness and greatness. ✨

Feeling bombarded by all the never ending rules? By the pushing of the next way to change yourself? Well we know that are worthy and wonderful here and now! Let's get into how we see through the noise and stay true to ourselves as we transform the world together.

Do you second guess yourself? Look to others to set your direction in life? Join Tessa and Cy to explore your own power and take back ownership of the life you deserve. You got this!

Do you find yourself longing for another time in life - whether it be in the future or the past? Remember that today is a gift. Each present moment is precious because it's the only one we truly have. Join Tessa and Cy to explore how we can all savor it and live life now!

We all only have so much room on our plate - let's make sure we are filling it with all the things that give us life! When someone offers you something to add to your plate, you can simply reply that you're plate is just as full as you like it. It's your plate after all! It's personal. You only have so much space to commit. And you take on only what you intend to consume. Why not make room for joy and pleasure? You are worthy and the world is ready to be enriched by a more joyful and liberated you!

All work and no play makes us dull and oppressed! Join Tessa and Cy in a Joy Rebellion where we see the game for what it is and we choose to infuse some joy in our day - even if it is just a micro dose. Because rest and joy are good for our wellness and we deserve and are worthy of being well and joyful. And because embracing our joy and wellness rejects oppression and it is an act and practice of resistance. Join the rebellion today, seek joy everyday, and do something just for you today and everyday.

Do you find yourself working and working and being pulled in every direction while your wellness never seems to take priority? You deserve joy and you are worthy of wellness, right now and all the time. But we often struggle trying to find how to put ourselves first or even in the running! Join Tessa and Cy as we find the path together. Let's tap into the things that brought us joy before we were told what we should be doing with our lives. Let's pull down the fears and barriers that keep us from allowing our wellness to live at the top of our lists. Let's walk hand and hand to a life of more joy, more wellness, more peace. Because you are worthy! We all are.

Hey you…yes you! Do you know you are deserving and worththy of pleasure, joy, and happiness? Not at the end of your life or after you achieve some milestone…but right now! Join Tessa & Cy as they challenge us to explore our preconceived notions of suffering, shame, pleasure, and happiness and invite us to enter our pleasure era today.

Do you ever feel like you are being pushed around by your emotions? Like one little comment or maybe one person always throws you into a spiral of emotional distress? You deserve better and you have the power to change this! Listen in as Tessa and Cy explore new tools to protect yourself and take your power back.

Do you ever question yourself, hold yourself back, take pause before going for the next big thing? Invoke your 5-year-old self with Tessa and Cy as they challenge us to push past our hesitancies to create the world we deserve. You are worthy and now is your time! Your younger self is counting on you.

Are you feeling stuck? Wondering how you got where you are in life? Is what you are doing everyday really bringing you joy? Join Tessa and Cy as they challenge us to dig deep and Marie Kondo our lives to a life worthy of you! We all have our priorities, but maybe it's time to take stock and make sure our priorities include our happiness and self-determination. You are worthy of the life of your wildest dreams!

We've all been there. We want something so bad and we get a “no” or a “you're not ready yet.” But instead of taking that to mean we have some imagined deficiency, what if we turned it around to understand that this person is just not ready for us? That they simply do not know how to value us for what we know we are worth and get us closer to stepping into all our greatness. Next time the universe tells you “no,” we challenge you to seek the people, the place, the opportunity that is the moment. The one you deserve - the one that will take you where you are truly destined to go. On the path to personal liberation and realizations of all your wildest dreams. You are a phenom and some people just aren't ready to handle that!

Ready to make the switch from a scarcity mindset into abundance? Tune in to this convo on practical ways to get there! This week Tessa and Cy explore the many ways that we can make this shift in our mentality and set ourselves up to fully step into our greatness while building up others around us. Join in and move into your endless potential!

So often we find ourselves holding back. But why? Do we really believe we can't do it or are we afraid of how we'll be seen if we do!? Let's talk about where that doubt and fear really comes from. Because you got this and if it feels a little scary and exciting - maybe you should go for it! Join us as we call out unfounded fears and lift each other up to be brave, courageous, and kind to ourselves and others to take us all to the next level together! ¡Adelante!

The strong ones. The ones with a good head on their shoulders. The ones that “have it all together.” They are the ones everyone goes to for advice and emotional support. But who is doing this for them? Join Tessa and Cy for a conversation on how we support our busiest and strongest friends and loved ones. And how we give ourselves permission to make space and time to care for our own health and wellness. Because we are all worthy. ✨

Criticism is a dirty word but there is no shame when we see the best in each other and choose to lift up instead of punching down. Listen in as Tessa and Cy dissect where our impulse to criticize one another comes from and challenge us to take a new approach. One where we meet people where they are with no judgment and with radical empathy and love. Let's lift each other up above ignorance, over fear, and beyond our limiting mindsets together.

Does a certain relative or social media influencer make you feel like you can never measure up? Does negative self talk creep in and convince you that you have to suffer and struggle to reach some unattainable and unreasonable expectation set for you by someone else? Run away and break free! Join Tessa and Cy on a journey of discovering how to define your own path and trust your instincts to lead you through the many phases of your complex and winding life story that you flow through. Your story is yours alone and it is a great one! Let's reject perfectionism and embrace liberation together, right now.

Are you ready for an evolution? It's time to see beyond ourselves and make this about each other. Join Tessa & Cy on their journey toward making the world a better place one interaction at a time!

Sometimes we don't even notice it, but we all feel the pressures of “being perfect.” It pokes at us as we scroll, as we passively take in ads and reality TV content, it stings when someone we love tosses a casual criticism or hurtful joke our way. All of it cumulates in our subconscious and tells us we are not good enough, that we should be leading our lives differently. But the tricky thing about perfectionism is it doesn't really exist outside of the power we give it in our own minds. Get liberated with Tessa & Cy and free your mind and spirit to do what YOU want without apologies, without justification. You are worthy of the best life you can imagine for yourself!

Burnout has become so common we almost expect it! But today Tessa and Cy tackle the issue and say no more. Join in on this conversation on how we can challenge toxic workplace culture to strive for health and wellness for us all.

It's time to live for you. Whatever choices you make in life, you are the one who has to live with them after all! Join Tessa & Cy today to explore how we can find the people and the tools we need to liberate ourselves and live the life we want, whenever want and however we want!

Good, bad, whose to say? Reality is all in the framing after all! Join Tessa and Cy for a convo on how to take power over the story we tell ourselves and others. Let's all get in the habit of writing our own narratives for the better!

It is spring time and about time we clear out the stagnate and make space for all things that bring us true joy! Join Tessa & Cy in the process of making space and intention for a joyful and fulfilled spirit. Taking stock of the people and things in our life that bring us happiness and life and making more time and space for them. A technique for building intentional community - we are creating the life that we deserve. One where we are surrounded by people who lift us up and make us stronger and encouraged to pursue our kind of joy and purpose. Let's do this...together!

In a world of gray, we choose color! We set our intention today to be the bright spot in someone else's day and be vulnerable enough to allow others to be our rainbow in our time of need. Join Tessa and Cy as they explore the many ways we can lift each other up - and make a habit of it - so that we are all operating at a higher level, together. Let's make this world a brighter more colorful place!

The stories we tell ourselves frame our reality and shape the way we see each other. So it is time to write our own story! Join Tessa & Cy as they take on the one dimensional onslaught of bad news and challenge themselves and all of us to start filling out the larger story and finding the hope and humanity in every story. We are in this together and we got this!

It so easy for us to follow a script written and directed by someone else. But you don't have to settle for a second hand story! Write your own script and make it a great one. You deserve to get to know who you really are and determine the life you want to live, then go live it - unapologetically! Join Tessa and Cy for this episode where they explore how to catch yourself in a harmful narrative, how to turn it around and how to avoid the traps in the future. You got this!

Information overload is just a typical sympom of living in today's world. We are on the quest to find the antidote! Join Tessa and Cy for a conversation on how to combat the onslaught of information and misinformation for a more peaceful life set with intention and compassion for self and others. Let's uplift above the noise together!

We all know what it is, we all deserve it, but so often we deny it - even to ourselves! Join in on this chat with Tessa and Cy as they contemplate how we can all do our part to inject a little more respect and humanity into our lives and our workplaces. How will we ever get around to making sure we are taking care of our health and wellness after all if we don't set each other up for success? Let's crack this nut together and start with showing ourselves the respect and grace we would extend to the ones we love the most.

Does the New Year having you thinking perfectionism is in? You are perfect just the way you are! Join Tessa & Cy as they dismantle the fallacy that everything has to be perfect before you deserve to have the life you want. You are worthy today! Other people's comments and opinions of your life is like a poop floating on your lake that you can just ignore as it goes by. Live the life you want right now and let other people apply their inconsequential idea of perfect to their own lives. You got this!

You are the creator of your life. Only you know who you really are and you are the only one who has the vision of who you can and will be. Join Tessa & Cy as they share the gems of wisdom that have helped them push through the limits society has attempted to impose as they kept clawing toward the lives they envisioned for themselves. You are worthy of your wildest dreams for yourself. In this episode begin discovering tools that will get you there.

It's that time of the year again and maybe you are dreading the holidays or even stressing out to make them perfect. But don't sweat it! This is the best time to give yourself permission to take care of you and prioritize your joy. It's the most wonderful time of year after all right? Let's make sure that is true for you too! Join Tessa and Cy as we all work toward freeing ourselves from the holiday expectations that bind us and on to a new way of honoring our true selves, acknowledging our lived and historical trauma, and forging new traditions that celebrate who we really are and center our wellness. Cheers to you!

The weight of keeping democracy alive can get you down. But we are here to lift you up on Election Day! What keeps you going? Join Cy and Tessa as they share the things that make them hopeful for the future.

Apply for that job. Move to that city. Contribute your ideas. Just do it. You belong at the table - so bust through the limits you and others might place on you and get in there! Tessa and Cy are two of your biggest fans, because we know your worth and you should too. Listen in for tips and tricks on how to get past the “stay in your lane” mindset and step fully into the greatness that awaits you.

Why do we assume all the good things in life are meant for someone else? You are worthy and now is the time to believe it! Join Tessa and Cy as they tackle the social messaging that holds us back and explore ways to break through to the life you deserve.

When does pursuing your purpose, your legacy go too far? And who is looking out for you to make sure that you are remembering to welcome joy in your life? Join Tessa & Cy as they navigate the pitfalls of pursuing meaning in life and remind you that you are worthy of enjoying life beyond your purpose.

Sorry, not sorry! Words matter and we too often use words against our own interest. Get assertive with Tessa & Cy this week as they explore ways to use the power of words to reclaim, define and uplift our narratives for ourselves!

All of us have places where we thrive and others where we struggle just to get by. What makes the difference when it comes to whether we live in The Good Place or The Bad Place? Join the conversation with Tessa and Cy as they contemplate how to make more of the places we live - places where we love to be and can be our best and truest selves.

Lizzo once said “We don't always have to be cruel. We can be kind and we don't have to pit people against each other.” And that is most true in a group setting. Intentionally setting kindness at the center of your group could be the key that unlocks your group's full potential. Join Tessa and Cy as they explore what this could look like for you in your life!

Difficult people - we also have them in our lives. But together we can lift above them! Don't' let anyone “yuck your yum,” as Tessa would say. Live life on your terms and get uplifted with us now!

In this episode Tessa and Cy examine the importance of making time to take care of you. Join us and ask yourself what have you done for yourself lately?

Where does your “I could never” mindset come from? Join Cy & Tessa in dissecting this limiting mindset and taking all its power away to overcome it and reach your unlimited potential.

In this episode of the Uplift Pod, Tessa and Cy make the case for intentional optimism - choosing optimism while acknowledging hard truths and tough odds. Join in on visualizing and building a brighter future through optimism.

Our new pandemic lives. We have all been going through it and we are in it together. In this episode Tessa and Cy talk best ways to stay uplifted and uplift others through these especially challenging times.

In this episode, Tessa and Cy share the most impactful wisdom offered to them throughout their lives to inspire and guide you in your journey.

In this pilot episode, Tessa & Cy revisit their origin stories and celebrate where they have found uplift in their early lives. Come along for the journey and get uplifted along the way!