WORTHY with Sandra Chuma

We're all looking for the secret to success. What's the key that will unlock the door to our extraordinary life? While no one has yet found the potion that will magically make you successful, there are some simple but powerful steps you can take to crack the code to an extraordinary life. In this video I share 5 C's that are guaranteed to make you a success story.

In this episode I share 5 myths about self-love, and how self-love is also really the foundation for anything and everything that you want in your life.  

Join the Worthy Book Club at https://theworthybookclub.iamworthy.com/ Featuring “Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It” by Kamal Ravikant   In this episode, I want to share with you the three tools that I've been using to manage myself as I've been going through difficult things over the last five or six months.  

Today I want to share with you three questions that will change your life. I've been asking myself these questions every single day since the beginning of the year, and it has had such a profound impact on me and how I go through every single day.

In this week's episode, I am sharing 5 steps to create affirmations that actually work. I also talk about understanding what an affirmation is, why they don't work for some people, how the subconscious mind works in this aspect, and why we need to constantly repeat affirmations to ourselves.

How do you learn to love yourself? In this week's episode, I'll share with you my eight points, eight reflections on what I think might be a foundation for you to start to enable your self love relationship.

Join the Abundance Codes Masterclass now! Starting April 10. https://programs.iamworthy.com/theabundancecodes   Purpose. I've seen some of you talk about. “I don't know what my purpose is, or I'm looking for my purpose.” That's exactly where I was some years ago. That's exactly how I felt. Some coaches say that “I don't know” is a lazy answer, but when it comes to your purpose, I'm going to say this is the one time that it's okay for you to say, “I don't know.” There's a huge difference in the energy of saying that in resignation, and the energy of being curious. That is all I invite you do – stay curious, to stay open to possibility. In this episode, I share five reflections, five ideas that I have about finding purpose.

Everybody has fear. Our fears might look different, but everybody at some point, somewhere in their life has a fear. But it's not about being fearless, it's about fearing less. In this episode, I share 5 steps that will help you overcome your fear so that you can make your quantum leap to achieving your goals.

This episode is actually a quick insight of what I shared in my Quantum Leap Masterclass. We've all said it at some point – “This is the year that I quantum leap into my next level.” And yet, why is it that research says that 80% of people never achieve their goals? In this episode, I'm going to tell you the four things that are stopping you from achieving your goals and what you can do about it.

Join my FREE Masterclass happening on March 19-23! Sign up at http://www.thequantumleapmasterclass.com/ If you've ever struggled with feeling worthy, worthy of doing anything worthy of having anything, this episode is for you. It is a deeply personal episode, but one that I really feel prompted to share, because so many of us struggle with worthiness.  

Join my FREE Masterclass happening on March 19-23! Sign up at http://www.thequantumleapmasterclass.com/   In today's episode, I'm going to be sharing the four words that are stopping you from creating the life of your dreams. I also talk about procrastination, and the science behind what drives people to do (or not do) things with a very comprehensive behavioral model diagram.   Get my FREE Masterclass on 5 Tips to Trick Your Brain To Stop Procrastinating: https://iamworthy.com/procrastination/  

In this episode, listen to how asking my husband to cut my hair turned out to be a valuable lesson on self-worth! And yes, we all deserve nice clean towels!  

Sign up for The Worthy Mastermind at https://mastermind.iamworthy.com/ Today, I'm sharing some really important questions to ask yourself – these important questions that inspired me to make some really big decisions in my life recently, so big that I literally packed up my apartment and got on the road. In fact, this episode was recorded while sailing down the Nile River.  In this episode, learn what these 3 questions are and how it is changing my life, and how it can also change yours.

When you own your abundance, everything changes. Abundance flows through you easily and generously. Money becomes an expression of your energy and creativity instead of a limitation. You begin to relax because you know full well that there is more than enough for everyone. In this episode, I share the importance of understanding your money mindset, the money stories we tell ourselves, and the philosophy of Ubuntu.

Lindsey Schwartz is an entrepreneur and big dreamer. She started her first business part-time at age 26, and over the next several years became an accomplished fitness athlete, full-time entrepreneur, speaker, and author. She is passionate about building community and believes women are most successful when they collaborate and sincerely root for one another to win. Lindsey is the bestselling author of “Powerhouse Woman: How to get out of your own way, fulfill your unique purpose, and live a powerful life.” After seeing numerous women in her life stop short of pursuing their own entrepreneurial dreams because of fear and self-doubt, she saw the need for more honest conversations about the ups & downs of entrepreneurship in order to show women that they don't have to have it all together to get started. From this, the Powerhouse Women community and annual event was born out of the belief that women are designed to create, and that when women get into action around their big ideas, the world works better. Follow Lindsey Schwartz Powerhouse Women: https://powerhousewomen.co/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powerhouse_women/?hl=en On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/powerhousewomencommunity Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/powerhouse-women/id1461493937 Lindsey on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/llindseyschwartz/?hl=en Lindsey's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Powerhouse-Woman-Fulfill-Purpose-Powerful/dp/099812124X

Angie claims that she “has been an entrepreneur since diapers,” and was hosting conferences for her Barbies already at a young age. She wasn't the type to follow rules and color in the lines as a little girl. She started her first business at 19 years old and has never looked back since. A natural comedian, Angie and loves to make people laugh. In this episode, she talks about being authentic and “owning your own weird.” She shares her journey on entrepreneurship, how she navigates life with ADHD, as well as her experience as an influencer on social media. Angie is also the co-founder of her wellness brand, Soul, and hosts her own podcast, The Angie Lee Show. Angie Lee's website: https://www.angielee.com/ Angie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angieleeshow/?hl=en The Angie Lee Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-angie-lee-show/id1178232410

Francesca is a certified breathwork coach and hypnotherapist. She helps people come into alignment with their highest selves and live more meaningful lives of purpose and impact. Francesca has been able to utilize the tools she teaches to transcend anxiety, self-doubt, unhealthy relationship patterns, addiction and more. She is passionate about infusing psychology, spirituality and science to guide transformative growth experiences. In this episode, Francesca talks about listening to your intuition, and how breathwork is the catalyst to developing your mind to heart connection, and strengthening your intuition. She also shares the tools she had learned and created in the aspect of breathwork, hypnotherapy, and visioning. Francesca's Website: https://francescasipma.com/ Francesca on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francescasipma/?hl=en Mastry App: https://mastryapp.com/

At a young age, Sara's eldest son, Rocco, started to show symptoms of autism. Doctors informed her that he was “non-verbal” and may never interact in a normal comprehensible way. In this episode, Sara talks about her experience as a parent, how they overcame all the challenges that came with neurodiverse parenting, and all the life lessons she had learned even from her own children. She also talks about the documentary film created about her son entitled ‘Rocco Up', which is a beautiful testimony to limitless family love and community support. Sara has established a neurodiversity consultancy to help other parents with special needs children. She offers guidance for everyday scenarios, and also advises for the longer term, from cultivating a support system within the community to advocating with institutions and legislators. Learn about the documentary film ROCCO UP: https://www.roccoup.com/ https://www.documentaries.org/rocco-up https://www.instagram.com/roccoupfilm/?hl=en More about Sara Intonato: sarayoga.com/links Sara on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sara.intonato/?hl=en

How do you make life decisions? I'm not talking about what ice cream flavor to pick kind of decision, I'm talking about decisions that would completely change my life. I'm sure you've had to make those, whether it was what job to take, whether or not to get married, whether to move to another state or another country, all of these big life decisions that have a huge impact. In this episode, I would like to share the steps I follow – specifically the 5 questions that I would ask myself in making major life decisions. Hopefully, if you're in the process of making a decision for yourself, this might be usefu.

This week's episode features Sandra's speech at the Powerhouse Women live event held last August 27, 2022. Sandra shares her story and talks about the three valuable life lessons that she had learned from her grandmother that led her to achieving and becoming who she is now. Learn more about Powerhouse Women at: https://powerhousewomen.co/

I recently polled my audience and asked what is the number one thing that they want more of in their life. Can you guess what they said? It's money. We all want more abundance in our lives. We all want money. Yes, I know money does not buy you happiness, but here's what money does do. Money buys you the freedom to make the choices that make you happy.  In this episode, I want to share five books that I've read that I truly believe are the key to you creating more wealth, more abundance, and more money in your life. Although the books that I am going to recommend might surprise you because they aren't what you might expect, like books about investing or crypto. These books that I recommend are based on the fundamental belief that money is a mindset. Having money and abundance starts first with how you think and what you believe to be true, and these 5 books will help you have a solid foundation to build wealth on. 

Jill wrote her first 100 page story in 6th grade. At 19, she started writing 2,500 words a day - which led to her to writing 18 million words just for fun. For over two decades, Jill has quietly purple-penned bestselling words ghostwriting for others, and also published her own writings under numerous pseudonyms. Now, with her debut book published under her own name (Create Your Most Delicious Life: Life's a Bitch, Especially Now, Make it a JOY!), Jill steps into the sunlight of her own creativity to model what's possible for others.  In this episode, Jill shares her journey to becoming a writer, her experiences as a ghostwriter and why she writes under pseudonyms, the stories behind the books she has written, and a great deal about the power of choosing joy in your life. Jill is an island  girl, and when she is not writing, she has made it a passion to rescue baby goats. Create Your Most Delicious Life: Life's a Bitch, Especially Now, Make it a JOY by Jill R. Stevens https://www.amazon.com/Create-Your-Most-Delicious-Life-ebook/dp/B09T6XGJGJ Please Pass The Joy by Jill R. Stevens https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BF15K8BZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Jill's website: https://www.jillrstevens.com/ Jill on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamthejoyfulwriter/ Jill's Writing Workshop Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/writeyourbookalreadywithjill/

Ichel Francis has always been aware of her intuitive and psychic abilities, but she suppressed them for a long time due to negative reactions from those around her. After her mother passed away, she began to question everything she thought she knew and eventually realized her true calling was to help others find their personal power and live their best life. Through 1-1 coaching and the community she has created, Goddess Moon Circle, Ichel guides women to see their own potential and teaches them how to live a life of peace, joy, and well-being. In this episode, Ichel talks about building self-trust and using your intuition as a guide. She also shares how your thoughts are a powerful tool, and how to use it to reclaim your power, take control of your life and choose the change that you want. Ichel is also hosts the Aligned Alchemy Podcast. Iche's Website: https://www.ichelfrancis.com/ Ichel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ichelfrancis/ Ichel on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/empressichel/ Aligned Alchemy Podcasthttps://www.ichelfrancis.com/podcast

Dr. Jeannie Arunima is the Founder of Golden Life Audio Journeys, where she takes on the mantle of healer, mentor, and meditation guide. There she shares her gifts in ancient yogic wisdom and Japanese energy healing methods to help people to reconnect with their innate healing power so they can live happier, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. She is also the host of The Wellspring Within podcast, a safe space dedicated to inner healing and exploring your inner path to nurture your wellbeing so that you can live the life that you love. Jeannie's work is based on the belief that "When we heal ourselves, we heal our world,"  and so, talks a lot about how we are all energetically-connected beings, and that our thoughts, emotions, and actions impact not only our own lives but also the lives of others.  Links Mentioned In This Episode: Golden Life Healing Audio Journeys Store Dr. Jeannie Arunima on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn The Wellspring Within Podcast How Stress Can Affect Our Health (Research) Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant

Amber Lilyestrom is a business mentor, branding expert, author, and speaker who helps coaches and creatives help more people and make more money. She spent 10 years working in collegiate athletics marketing before launching her business where she was recognized as one of the top sports marketing professionals in the nation. She is the author of ‘Master Your Money Mind' and ‘Paddle Home', and also hosts her own podcast, The Amber Lilyestrom Show. In this second part of our conversation with Amber, she talks about self-worth, the journey of self-trust, and allowing yourself to receive the same amount of love you give. Amber Lilyestrom's website: https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/ Amber on Instagram: @amberlilyestrom Amber's Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B08R3CJL7Q The Amber Lilyestrom Show https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/podcast Sandra Chuma on the Amber Lilyestrom Show: https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/soulpoweredceo-podcast/sandra-chuma-on-achieving-our-greater-purpose

Amber Lilyestrom is a business mentor, branding expert, author, and speaker who helps coaches and creatives help more people and make more money. She spent 10 years working in collegiate athletics marketing before launching her business where she was recognized as one of the top sports marketing professionals in the nation. She is the author of ‘Master Your Money Mind' and ‘Paddle Home', and also hosts her own podcast, The Amber Lilyestrom Show. In the first of this two-part episode, Amber talks about her personal journey, and the importance of listening to our dreams and really taking them seriously. Amber Lilyestrom's website: https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/ Amber on Instagram: @amberlilyestrom Amber's Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B08R3CJL7Q The Amber Lilyestrom Show https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/podcast Sandra Chuma on the Amber Lilyestrom Show: https://www.amberlilyestrom.com/soulpoweredceo-podcast/sandra-chuma-on-achieving-our-greater-purpose

Anna Lozano is a multifaceted entrepreneur who loves adventure, creation, and helping others. Together with her business partner, they had founded Love Powered Co., an affirmation company that brings mindfulness, connection, and gratitude to women and families around the world.  Anna has experienced a lot of success in product-based businesses, network marketing, and coaching over the last 12+ years. She is something of a magician when it comes to mentoring other female entrepreneurs in embodying their own success stories.  If you're looking for someone who knows how to create success from the inside out, Anna is your girl! She is passionate about helping women realize their fullest potential and creating businesses that make a positive impact on the world. Anna's Website: https://annalozano.com/ Anna on Instagram: @_annalozano

Padma Ali is a life coach and therapist who helps her clients tap into their inner wisdom, remove energetic blueprints that are holding them back, and evolve to reach new levels of spiritual awakening. She has over 20 years of experience as a licensed Psychotherapist, is a Certified Life Coach, Hypnotist & NLP Practitioner. Padma has also trained extensively in traditional and non-traditional modalities, including Energy Healing. Padma's website: https://www.padmaali.com/ Padma on Instagram: @padmaali https://www.instagram.com/padmaali/?hl=en

Jill Stanton has been building is the founder of Millionaire Girls Club and co-founder of Wealthy Course Creators. She has been building businesses from the ground up since 2012, so she's no rookie when it comes to brandishing her entrepreneurial know-how. Together with her husband, Josh, they have built a multiple seven-figure business by creating digital courses that teach women how to build wealth and create financial freedom.

Candyce Ossefort-Russell, LPC-S is a psychotherapist, writer, speaker, and therapist trainer in private practice in Austin, Texas. She's the founder of the DEEP (Dynamic Enriched Experiential Psychotherapy) Center for Counseling and Psychotherapy Training where she counsels, supervises, writes, and teaches from an attachment-based experiential perspective in the areas of trauma, grief, and life transition. Candyce is known for her warm and emotionally engaged style that creates a safe and connected atmosphere for growth and learning. Candyce's Website: http://www.deepcenterforgrowth.com/ Candyce on Instagram: @cortherapist All Articles mentioned can be found under the DEEPER DIMENSIONS BLOG in her website.

Join my 90-minute masterclass on Eliminating Impostor Syndrome! Visit https://reset.iamworthy.com/ Research says that 82% of people at some point in their lives, feel impostor syndrome. Impostor Syndrome has also been found to be most prevalent with women. For most people, Impostor Syndrome looks like self-doubt, questioning whether what you do is actually good enough. Sometimes it shows itself as perfectionism where we feel like you've got to do everything absolutely perfectly, where we feel like we've got to be better than everybody else for us to matter. It can show up as not wanting to take any responsibility, because if you take on responsibility, you'll have to do a really good job. Impostor Syndrome can be debilitating and self-sabotaging to our success and self-worth, so in this episode, I share 6 steps to overcome this.

Angharad Sage is a Galactic Money Mentor. As a serial entrepreneur from a very early age, by the time she was 27 she had built 3 different brick and mortar businesses to six figures and in 2019 founded her online presence as a coach and mentor to spiritual entrepreneurs. Angharad Sage Ltd is now a multiple 7-figure brand that teaches people to master their intuition and hold their duality, in order to precipitate their desires into their 3D reality. She is a homeschooling, conscious parenting Mumma to her 2 young children and currently resides in New Zealand with her partner, Luke. Angharad Sage on Instagram: @angharadsage Join Angharad's Telegram: https://www.angharadsage.com/sense

Throughout my coaching experience, there is a common limiting belief that so many people have. It is the belief that they are not worthy of having the abundance that they want in their life, however they might define abundance. In this episode, I share a good analogy of how this limiting belief shows up in people's lives, and the truth we all should know about it.

Most of us were never taught what abundance is, how to be abundant, and how to allow abundance into our lives. Why is it that we expect that we should just know?  Today, I want to talk about something that is so foundational about abundance, however you define abundance. In this episode, I talk about why the first thing that stands in the way of your abundance is YOU – specifically, you judging yourself for where you are.

It Is still mind boggling to me that kids go to school, and there isn't a class where they truly learn about money. Yes, there are the mechanics of money – you put your money in a savings account, you save and then that makes interest, or you invest in stocks. That's one part of it.  But there's a step before that so many of us have never been taught, and that step is the fact that money comes from how you think and how you feel about it.  We have been taught that money comes from hard work, that you need to hustle, that money only happens for certain people who are special, or you have to have been born with money. The truth is one of the most common struggles people have with money is that they do not feel that they're worthy to have the money that they want to have. 

Chidiogo Blessing Akunyili-Parr's name roughly translates as ‘God is gracious with blessings and my cup overflows'. It's an appropriate name for a woman whose list of accomplishments is so impressive. She's been voted one of the ‘100 Most Influential Young Africans,' ‘100 Most Influential Nigerians,' she's been a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow, and she speaks 7 languages! As a writer and storyteller, Chidiogo has written a biography about her late mother, Professor Dora Akunyili, who was Nigeria's first head of the country's National Agency of Food and Drug Administration (NAFDAC). Her book entitled ‘I Am Because We Are: An African Mother's Fight for the Soul of a Nation' is in memory of her mother's legacy that encouraged millions of people even when faced with corruption and misogyny. In 2017, Chidiogo founded an organization called She ROARs – Reimagining Our Africa Rising. Her mission is to empower women across Africa to unleash their full potential and that of the continent.  Her philosophy is based on the humanist African concept of Ubuntu – ‘I am because you are. You are because we are'.   She ROARs Website https://www.sheroarsafrica.org/   Chidiogo's Website:  http://www.chidiogo.com/   Chidiogo on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/chidiogo.akunyili/   Chidiogo's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Am-Because-We-Are-African/dp/1487009631/ref=asc_df_1487009631/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533377906483&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16143914472730682721&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=1015572&hvtargid=pla-1362362582829&psc=1

In this second part of our conversation with best-selling author, coach, and speaker, Iona Holloway, we learn more about identity, awareness, and self-worth from her journey. She shares the turning point in her struggle with an eating disorder that led her to take the practical steps to change, and how embedding worthiness in her identity became her renewable source of energy in life. Growing up with the standards of ‘perfection', Iona navigates through these beliefs and how it affected her both mentally and physically, and how she believes that every experience teaches us something valuable, even if we get lost at some point.In this episode, Iona shares more about her book, Ghost: Why Perfect Women Shrink, how she came to write it, her goal and intention of this book, and the message she wants people to take from it. Iona's Website: https://www.bravething.co/ Iona on Instagram: @ionaholloway Iona's Soul Breathwork app in the Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/tt/app/soul-breathwork-app/id1593412330 Iona's Book - Ghost: Why Perfect Women Shrink https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Why-Perfect-Women-Shrink/dp/154451719X

This week, we talk to best-selling author, coach, and speaker, Iona Holloway. Iona was really an achiever early in life, doing well in both academics and athleticism. But despite all her achievements, she struggled with an eating disorder that was her ‘coping mechanism for survival', as she would put it. She also shares how living with this struggle and pain became her mobilizer to jumping into the opportunity to become a professional athlete.  Iona played field hockey at a national level in Scotland and an All-American level at Syracuse University.  In the first of this two-part episode, Iona tells us about her silent struggle in this journey, and how wawa able to make the change for her recovery, leading to her writing her book, Ghost. She also realized that she possessed a very valuable discipline that has helped her as an athlete, and in life – Breathwork. Her desire to share and teach this amazing tool and it's life-changing benefits to others led to her co-creating an app called Soul - Breathwork. In this conversation, Iona also talks about: - the practical and spiritual side of breathwork - the difference of breathwork from meditation - how breathwork can be the gateway to meditation for some people - her personal experiences with breathwork and her one-on-one coaching - how breathwork helped people like entrepreneurs, people in recovery, people with body and self-worth issues - How the mind initially reacts to breathwork - how breathwork is parallel to life -- how you have to get over the curve of 'efforting' and doing  first before reaching the state of being Iona's Website: https://www.bravething.co/ Iona on Instagram: @ionaholloway Iona's Soul Breathwork app in the Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/tt/app/soul-breathwork-app/id1593412330

Who we are starts with the beliefs that we hold, what we believe is true of ourselves. What beliefs do you hold?  What does your bank account say about the beliefs that you hold?  What does your body and health say about the beliefs that you hold?  What do your relationships say about the beliefs that you hold?  Ask yourself, “What are the beliefs that I would need to hold for me to live the life that I want, to create the business that I want, to create my dream life?” – the dream life that you are perfectly capable of creating for yourself.  In this episode, I share the origins of where our beliefs usually come from, how to identify, question and examine them, and ultimately how we can change what needs to be changed for us to step into our dream life.

My father used to say to me all the time, “Sandra, your success will have no meaning unless you bring others with you.”  In my journey, I had gotten carried away by the quest for more and more – thinking that my happiness would lie at the other end of more.  If I could just make more money.  If I could just have more shoes.  If I could just get the next dream car.  And as I checked off each of those milestones, it was empty. It was hollow.  What was it that I was doing to fulfill the words that my father had said to me about bringing others with me?  It took me a really long time to get to the point where I figured out what my purpose was. I realized that we all are looking for purpose in our lives. We all want to do something that means something in the world, and what that looks like is going to be very different.  For some people, it's speaking on world stages. For other people, it's just being the best mother that they can be to their family, raising their children the best that they know how. But for many of us women, we stop ourselves from going after the things that we dream of, because we don't think we're good enough, or society tells us that this should be the dream that we want for ourselves, even though we know deep down that it's not.  What does it take for us to get to the point where we can get off the bench and step into our purpose and dream life?  In this episode, I share four keys on what it would take for us to step into the game of life, where you can truly start to live a life that is aligned with who you are meant to be and truly live a life that is aligned with your purpose.

This week we get to have a conversation with UX Copywriter and Entrepreneur, Susan Reoch. Susan is a User Experience (UX) Copywriter and Strategist. She has invested a lot of time and effort in finding and defining the connective tissue between UX and copywriting, and has mastered it. This has become her competitive advantage, allowing her to write web copy quickly and effectively. Susan has become the go-to person for UX copywriting, earning 6-figures in her second year of business, and launching UX to Profit — a group coaching program that teaches copywriters about UX. In this episode, Susan shares her journey into entrepreneurship – what got her started, the challenges, the wins, and even gives some insights and advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. More importantly, she speaks about the importance of changing your mindset and self-talk in starting a business, and how this personally helped her become a successful entrepreneur. Susan's Website: https://susanreochcopywriter.com/ Susan on Instagram: @susanreoch_copywriter

This episode was taken from Sandra's Instagram Live broadcast the day before Valentine's Day. We are sharing it here because she delivers a very powerful message that everyone needs to hear. - The WORTHY Team We have been fed this romantic notion about someone ‘completing' you. Who remembers the famous line from Jerry Maguire – “You complete me.” That is the kind of love that we are sometimes looking for – someone who completes us.  But that's not true. The only person who can ever complete you is you. The only person who can give you the love that you deserve is you.

It's really challenging not to feel overwhelmed, overcome, despondent, and sad with all of the things that are happening in the world.  Oftentimes when things are going so horribly wrong, whether it's in our personal lives, or whether it's in the world at large, we often look to large solutions.  We're looking for world leaders to step in and fix things and go to the United Nations.  We're looking for bosses.  We're looking for really big things.  For most of my school life, I went to a convent school. I wasn't Catholic growing up, but I went to a convent school because it was one of the best schools in the city that I lived in. I learned many prayers, many of which I have forgotten, but the one that has stayed with me and one that I have come back to over and over again. It has been the prayer of St. Francis.  Even without coming from a religious perspective, I think that this prayer had some of the most profound words when it comes to looking for the solutions that we all so desperately want. It has all to do with starting with ourselves.

Have you ever been jealous of somebody else's success? Have you ever felt jealous of someone who achieved something that you wanted? I'll put my hand up because, yes, I have felt jealous of other people's success. As good little girls, we were taught that being jealous is a bad thing. I'm a preacher's kid too, and in church we were taught that it is evil to even want something that someone else has. Envy is a bad thing.  You do not want to feel those bad feelings, and yet, all feelings are valid. And so when we say to ourselves, “Don't feel jealous,” we are suppressing our feelings. When we suppress our feelings, bad things happen. When we don't process our feelings and they just stay stuck in our bodies, unprocessed feelings lead to so many issues, including physical manifestations as disease.  And so why do I think that being jealous is a good thing?  Let's try to unpack why we feel jealous. In this episode, I share three reasons that I think we primarily feel jealous, and how to change our mindset of these reasons into something good that can help you achieve your goals.

Welcome back to the conclusion of our 2-part series featuring my conversation with transformational life coach and rockstar fitness advocate - Lisa Carpenter. In this episode, Lisa shares her story about how she wound up in the world of competitive fitness and how her amazing journey unraveled when she began to fully embrace her femininity and sexuality. She dives deep into how she created her alter ego, who is a powerful and unapologetic version of herself, and how this persona helped her deal with the shame and judgment that she's experienced regarding her body. Have you been wrestling with the concept of self-worth lately? We got you! Come join us in this episode, it's about time for you to reclaim your power and embrace your inner goddess. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lisa has an extensive background as a life coach and offers so much wisdom on boundaries, abundance, and self-love... so you can just imagine how exciting it is to have this conversation with her! With nearly 20 years of coaching experience, an extensive background in nutrition and fitness, Lisa brings a unique combination of coaching to her clients helping them claim a relationship in their lives, businesses or bodies free of stress, struggle and frustration. Lisa Carpenter CNC, CSNC, PN1, CPT  is the secret weapon for driven, ambitious, achievers who want to live, lead, and perform at their highest level. Her work acknowledges the deep connection between our behaviors and our emotions, helping her clients experience freedom from the constraints of societal beliefs that include dieting, hard work, and self-sacrifice.  Lisa Carpenter's website: https://lisacarpenter.ca/ Lisa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisacarpent...

In this episode, we're talking about boundaries! Why they're important, how to start setting them, and reflections on how we love (or don't love) ourselves. We kick off this 2-part series featuring my mentor, Lisa Carpenter, with a much needed discussion on why it's so important for us to learn how to set boundaries and honor our relationship with ourselves.  Lisa and I talked about what boundaries are, and she also shared her own personal experiences to paint a picture of what it looks like when we start setting boundaries in our everyday relationships. One of the main things I took away from this conversation is that setting boundaries is a reflection of how we love ourselves. Yes, setting boundaries is an act of self-care and self-love. Lisa shared how when we don't love and respect ourselves enough, boundaries often feel like an impossible task. So, if self-love is in your priority list this 2022, then make sure to tune in to this episode! I promise, you won't regret it. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Lisa has an extensive background as a life coach and offers so much wisdom on boundaries, abundance, and self-love... so you can just imagine how exciting it is to have this conversation with her! With nearly 20 years of coaching experience, an extensive background in nutrition and fitness, Lisa brings a unique combination of coaching to her clients helping them claim a relationship in their lives, businesses or bodies free of stress, struggle and frustration. Lisa Carpenter CNC, CSNC, PN1, CPT  is the secret weapon for driven, ambitious, achievers who want to live, lead, and perform at their highest level. Her work acknowledges the deep connection between our behaviors and our emotions, helping her clients experience freedom from the constraints of societal beliefs that include dieting, hard work, and self-sacrifice.  Lisa Carpenter's website: https://lisacarpenter.ca/ Lisa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisacarpenterinc/

One of my biggest complaints about my husband is that he is the least romantic person that I know. He's not a Valentine's Day kind of guy.    I'm always telling my husband, “You're not romantic. You don't do anything romantic for me.” But just before Valentine's Day, he said to me, “I'd really like to do something romantic for you this Valentine's Day. What would you like?”   I did the double blink thing, because I realized in that moment something that I had not ever realized before – I didn't know what I wanted. All of this time, I've been complaining about how my husband never did anything romantic for me, and yet, I didn't know what I wanted. It made me stop and think about all the other areas in my life where I don't have the things that I want. I realized that I spend so much time focused on what I don't have, or what isn't working, or what I don't like… and yet I never focus on or define exactly what it is that I do want. This realization made me realize three things that I'd like to share on why most people don't get what it is that they want. 

There's a lot of truth to the saying "pain is your body's way of telling you something is wrong." In fact, pain is an incredibly important signal from our bodies that something needs our attention.  So, why are we neglecting this signal? Why do we glorify our heightened pain thresholds and make being in pain the norm? Jake Currie, Founder of Mind Body Masters, says that most inexplicable physical pains we're experiencing often stem from repressed emotions, and that pain is simply our body's response to being in a prolonged state of distress. He also talks a lot about how stress and trauma can manifest itself on different parts of our body. Join us in this episode, as we go through what our emotions are showing us, and why we need to start LISTENING to our PAIN to heal what ails us. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Jake Currie believes that everyone deserves to be healthy. We deserve to feel in control of our own body and mind, and that we should not have to fear our symptoms. After years of struggling with his own body and chronic pain (even as a chiropractor), Jake discovered the science of German New Medicine (GNM) which gave him a new perspective on health and allowed him to heal. Jake has helped hundreds of people from all over the world, who are just like you, heal physical pain and other chronic health conditions from the inside out. Jake's website: https://www.mindbodymasters.com/paineliminator Jake on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jake_currie/

I love pineapple. I could eat it all day, every day! I'm always looking at ways that I can learn life lessons in the most unusual ways. I feel like when we learn things in unusual ways, it helps them to stick. One of the things that I wanted to know was how this gorgeous pineapple ended up in the produce section at my local supermarket, and so I did some research to find out. How do pineapples grow? Where do they grow? What can I learn about pineapples? What I learned in learning about pineapples really struck me as valuable life lessons that we can learn and apply in our lives. In this episode, I share three life lessons I have learned from pineapples.

Have you ever stopped to think about all the promises or the vows or the commitments that you make to other people for the things you'll do for other people? Now, here's the thing. If Self-Love is the foundation of everything that you have in your life, if you feeling worthy to have, to be, to do all of the things that you want for yourself, what are the commitments that you're making to yourself to get there? What's the promise that you're making to yourself?

I had an argument with my husband, and it set me off. I was so mad that I didn't speak to him for the rest of the day. I felt like I was put in a corner. You do not put me in a corner. This is my business, my thing. And I got all mad.  I was unable to go through my morning meditation the next day because I was so mad… but I had to remember something that I had learned in my meditation teacher training.  One of the things that we had learned was the fact that everything is here to help you learn and grow. Every experience, everything that you go through – good or bad. And oftentimes when bad things happen, or things that make us angry, we want to just be in our feelings of anger, hurt, and disappointment. And yet, we miss the opportunity to look for the lesson.  In this experience, I want to share that in moments of anger, we must ask, “What are you here to teach me?”