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In this episode, Lesley Logan talks with Stephanie O'Dea—New York Times bestselling author, viral blogger, and now a slow living coach—about what it really means to live intentionally. From building a wildly successful crockpot recipe blog to burning out on hustle culture, Stephanie shares how tuning in, slowing down, and redefining success helped her create a life she actually wants to live. This is a must-listen for anyone who's tired of chasing someone else's version of success and ready to start trusting themselves again.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co mailto:beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe https://lesleylogan.co/podcast/#follow-subscribe-free.In this episode you will learn about:How Stephanie's slow cooker challenge became a bestselling brand.Why she walked away from hustle culture to embrace slow living.How redefining success helped her build a life she actually enjoys.Why slow living isn't about doing less, but about doing what matters.How to release guilt and build intentional routines aligned with your values. Episode References/Links:Stephanie O'Dea's Website - https://stephanieodea.comFree Daily Journaling Worksheet - stephanieodea.com/dailyStephanie O'Dea's Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/stephanieodeaStephanie O' Dea Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/StephanieODea.authorSlow Living Book by Stephanie O'Dea - https://a.co/d/dK5en1ySlow Living Podcast - https://stephanieodea.com/podcastGretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin - https://a.co/d/gQ5ToVpGuest Bio:Stephanie O'Dea is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and coach specializing in Slow Living. With a background in social work, early childhood education, and trauma-informed yoga, she offers a holistic approach to wellness. Through her books, coaching, and Slow Living podcast, Stephanie helps people slow down, reconnect with their purpose, and create sustainable balance. Her latest book, Slow Living: Cultivating a Life of Purpose in a Hustle-Driven World, reflects her mission. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, three daughters, and a basset hound named Sheldon. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. https://lovethepodcast.com/BITYSIDEALS! DEALS! DEALS! 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You don't need bro culture or internet marketers to tell you what you should be doing. If you're slow and calm, the answers kind of bubble up.Lesley Logan 0:19  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. Lesley Logan 1:01  Hey, Be It babe, how are you? Okay, I promise you you've never heard about a living like this before, and our guest today is like the queen of what she does. I'm gonna let her tell you what she does, but I'm gonna tell you right now, I wanna live next to this woman. I want her to be my neighbor. I want her to be a friend that I can just call. I am going to save this episode just so I can hear the end of it over and over and over again, especially on the days that I need to hear it. You guys, Stephanie O'Dea is our guest today, and if you think that name sounds familiar, it's because it will. You'll hear about that in a second. And I am just so obsessed. This interview is kind of one of the reasons why I'm like, oh my god. I love that I get to do this podcast. I am feel like the luckiest girl in the world, because I get to learn from these amazing guests, and then I get to share that with you. And so y'all, buckle up, take a deep breath, slow down. This episode is gonna rock your world in the best way. Lesley Logan 1:58  All right, Be It babe. This is gonna be really exciting. I think we've never had this topic before. I'm always interested when there's something new, a new way for us to be it till we see it. And today's guest is Stephanie O'Dea. Can you tell us, everyone, who you are and what you rock at?Stephanie O'Dea 2:11  Absolutely, I'm Stephanie O'Dea, and I write, coach, teach and speak about all things slow living. Lesley Logan 2:18  Okay, right. Stephanie O'Dea 2:20  I know. I promise I'm not just sitting on the couch, twiddling my thumbs, eating Bonbons, doing nothing. I promise there's a method to the madness. Lesley Logan 2:28  Yeah, obviously we're all intrigued, like, what is slow living? But maybe we need to know what that is before we can figure out how you got to doing slow living. So we're also on the same page, yeah.Stephanie O'Dea 2:38  Yeah. So I look at slow living as meeting your goals, all of them, your personal and your professional goals, in a slow, steady and sustainable way. And if we can circle and highlight and underline and put some pointers at sustainable, that's what it's at. Because I think we all know the feeling of being gung-ho. And I'm going to do this now, and I'm gonna eat this way, and I'm gonna work out this way, and I'm gonna get up at at 3 a.m. and I'm gonna have rock star abs at the end of the week. Lesley Logan 3:09  Oh yeah. Stephanie O'Dea 3:09  Yeah. And spoiler alert, if you're listening, chances are you're a human and not a robot. And well, who knows, the robots may be taking over, but in real life, people have ups and downs and all arounds and variables they can't control. So slow living, first off, has an acronym attached to it. I'm a super nerd when it comes to acronyms, and that's because my grandpa, when I was about seven, told me that the word SNAFU had the F word hiding in it, so it's situation normal, all effed up, like he told me, he told me, when I was seven, he actually said that, the bad word out loud. And I'm like, grown ups hide bad words in regular words. And so, like, since then, I've nerded out with acronyms. So slow living, slow is simply look only within and it's the idea that you actually have the answers, and you don't need to be saved. You don't need bro culture or internet marketers to tell you what you should be doing. If you're slow and calm, the answers kind of bubble up. So it's a big part of listening to your inner voice, to your inner gut, to your intuition, and then taking action on it. So the three-step success formula is mindset plus action plus consistency equals success. And so the new, yeah, the new book is broken up that way. And the idea is, when you're in a good mood, just ask yourself, like, what's the next best step for me to take? And then go quiet and listen, because you know the answer is inside. The answer is not going to be on a doom stroll of TikTok. It's legit inside of you, and you know what you're supposed to do. And then just do the thing over and over and over again, and even when you don't want to. Lesley Logan 5:03  I love this so much because I love that you put consistency in there. The only way to be consistent is if you actually are at a pace that you can consistently do. We were in Singapore the other day. I picked a bike taxi and the car, I was trying to figure out what's going on because the guy was driving the car, it would go, whoo. You know where your whole body moves like someone's taking off too fast at a red light, and then it would slow down, and then it would go like that again. And was like, literally for 16 minutes, the body was going like this, and like this, and like this. We were on the freeway, but I felt like urgency to leave the intersection, and then a hard -ish break but not a full break. And I got a headache. I got sick. Brad felt nauseous. I was like, I hope we don't get that cab going to dinner. Like, I cannot be in that car again. That's the idea of you can't be consistent at a pace like that, because you can't, your body doesn't do well, your brain doesn't do well. And so being consistent is so key to having the things that we want. But I also love you add, like, listening to yourself, because it's really hard to do that when you're kind of going too fast, like, you don't have time when everything is chaotic. How did you get into doing this? Like, were you born working slow? Stephanie O'Dea 6:07  No, no, I'll tell you my back story, but I got to tell you, my mom drives that way, and now my kids don't want to get in the car with her. They're like, I always feel sick when I drive with grandma so. Lesley Logan 6:17  Okay, so there's, I literally was looking at his leg. I'm like, is he doing this, or does he is it like the car is like, oh, there's a car that's too close. Like, I don't, could not figure out what's going on. Stephanie O'Dea 6:26  I think my mom is full acceleration, and then foot off, and then full acceleration, and then foot off. And there's a happy medium there. So what's interesting about my backstory is I got started writing online crock pot recipes, crock pot slow cooker recipes. Lesley Logan 6:42  Okay, I definitely was wondering if slow living meant, like, like, slow cooker. Stephanie O'Dea 6:46  Yeah, so, so, yeah. So, I'm very Google-able, but I got my start in 2008 because I made a New Year's resolution to follow through on using my crock pot slow cooker every day for a year and writing about it online. And it, it took off. It went viral. Lesley Logan 7:02  I've heard of you. You are Google-able.Stephanie O'Dea 7:07  Yeah. So, when (inaudible) funny, because 2008 depending on how old you are when you're listening, that could sound like a long time ago or not that long time ago, but at the time it legit, was the first crock pot recipe site written by like a normal person, and it went crazy. I made yogurt. I invented, like, quote-unquote, invented lots of things, and because of that, I ended up on national television multiple times. Good Morning America, Rachel Ray Show did all the magazines and got a book deal. It worked great. At its peak, it was making $1,000 a day just in banner ads, and it was amazing. So the good news is is I understand mathing and I understand the Internet, so I knew what goes up must eventually come down. And so that absolutely did in about 2016 with the Instant Pot. And so my book publishers and agent, they're like, you should translate all your recipes. So I bought one, and I hated the thing. I get it. The tech part is fun. Yay for the scientists for discovering that they can cook a frozen chicken in 45 minutes. But for me, what I liked about the crock pot is I could put it on the morning, I'm highly caffeinated and coherent, I push a button and then I never think about dinner again. So it eliminated a whole bunch of decision fatigue, and it just was lovely, because cooking is great, but I'm not going to get a Zen moment chopping an onion. I'm just not. Some people are, great, no, but for me, it's a chore. Lesley Logan 8:41  I see you. You are seen.Stephanie O'Dea 8:44  Yeah. So anyway, I got fired. I got fired, and I had this like, sort of voice of God, of like, hey Steph, just because you can do something fast, it doesn't mean you should. And so I spent some time away from the internet, I sort of unplugged everything for a while. And one really lovely, amazing thing about passive income is even when you're not working, it works for you. So I was in a very privileged state that I could kind of pontificate what the next best step for me to take was, and I realized that following through on my resolution, following through on all of the goals that I've always had for myself has been my secret sauce. Writing crock pot recipes was really just a way to feed the internet. And so that's how the slow living podcast got started, and how I started working with women from all over the world to help them meet their goals in a slow, steady and sustainable way.Lesley Logan 9:40  I'm obsessed with this because I think it's because here's what I love about this. I was like, Oh, I wonder if slow living means, like, slow cooker. And then I was, I don't even use my Instapot. Do you see how, like, I put the two together, even though they're not. Thank you for educating me. I clearly.Stephanie O'Dea 9:52  Gold stars, Lesley, gold stars. Lesley Logan 9:53  I am not the person who cooks in this household. I think that's pretty evident. I was just like, oh. And then I but I was reading all the stuff and I was like, oh, but, like, we're talking about goals, and I'm like, totally in on this, how this works. So, but I love that the intuitiveness was there, so that's really great. But the other reason I love this is that you are the perfect example of how you get started and what you have done in the past. That's not that it has to ever end, but also that you can evolve from it. And it doesn't have to be like the next pie over, which is the Instant Pot. It could be like all the way on the other side of the pie and be like something that's different, but they're not. They're the same. Stephanie O'Dea 10:27  No, absolutely I and it's funny. So I have three kids, and I'm constantly telling them like you are your own person, in your own entity. Sure, Dad and I might have ideas for you, but you get to decide. And every year, people get so excited about New Year's resolutions and different things and the idea that they can reinvent themselves, and then they have the first few dismissive thoughts of, well, I can't do that, or, Oh, this is too hard. And so then they give up. And the fact is, if we're lucky, life is long. Sure, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, but don't live your life thinking that instead, where are you going to be in your 50s, your 60s and your 70s? I mean, I work with women of all ages and stages. If you want to crawl around on the floor in your 70s with your grandchildren and do yoga and have, I don't know, prize-winning tulips. Start now. Start setting the stage now, and plant those metaphoric seeds to get you from where you are to where you want to goLesley Logan 11:29  You are correct. As a Pilates instructor, one of the things that people like when should I get started? I'm like, well, yesterday was a better day, but that's fine, we'll start now. Because I've had people come to me at 70 going, I'm in aches and pains. I've got this thing, and now I've got a hump on my back, and I'm like, so the time to prevent the hump was like, 20 years ago. So there's not much I can do now that you're in that position, but here's what I can do to keep you upright so you can play with your grandchildren. And people don't realize, and they wait until they realize they weren't hit by a bus earlier, and then they're like, now it changes. And that's not that it's ever too late, but there's just some things that if we got started sooner and when we went more consistently, we went more slowly, we took our time handling the obstacles and the setbacks and reevaluating that we would actually get to where we wanted to go, I guess, faster.Stephanie O'Dea 12:15  So it's true. I mean, it's legit. The metaphor of the tortoise and the hare just slow, steady and stay on track. And so that's why I like that mindset, action, consistency formula is when you're in a good mood, don't make up rules for yourself when you're in a bad mood, because you're just punishing yourself. But when you're in a good mood, decide what the next steps are, and a lot of it is putting blinders on and not worrying about what other people are doing. So if you're listening to this right now and you're thinking, well, Lesley got to be in Singapore last week, and I'm wasn't in Singapore last week, and my life sucks. So okay, you are playing your own game. So again, because I am such an acronym junkie, I rewrote FOMO to figure only myself out you play your game, and if Singapore is not in your cards right now, okay, great, but maybe put it on a vision board and maybe start saving and start pivoting to have that come to fruition. But it doesn't mean you've done anything wrong if you never had the thought like six or eight months ago or a year ago when Lesley decided to go to Singapore, you weren't there yet. So if you're there now, okay, great, start pivoting and make that way. And same with the hump on your back. If you're like, oh, okay, I do want to be that person in my 70s. But actually really like my nightly wine, and I like doom scrolling, and I caught up on all of the seasons of younger and now I don't know what to do with myself. Okay, then, then go do some stretches and start working on it in a very slow, steady and sustainable way. Lesley Logan 13:55  You're absolutely correct. And I have a funny story about the Singapore thing. You guys, normally, when we fly to Cambodia for our retreat, we always choose the shortest. Doesn't everybody, when you want to go, you want to get to where you want to go when you're traveling. So it's like the shortest. Well, ever since the pandemic and the way the flight paths have changed, it has been twice as much to fly to Cambodia as it usually is, and it irritates me, because I know it's not that expensive. Double is not the right price. So my assistant presented like three options, and the two shortest options were $1,500 per person, round trip, 23 hours of travel, still a lot, still full day, exhausting. But then there was a flight that was 31 hours of travel. It was $500 cheaper per person, and it had a 13 hour layover in Singapore. And in Singapore, you can leave the airport. You can apply for the day visa. It's so easy to do. You do it online. And we were landing in time to go to dinner, and I was like, wouldn't it be cool to go to Singapore for dinner? And here's the thing you guys, it wasn't about saving $500 it was about enjoying the trip to Cambodia. Because I'm like, this is I don't I'm so tired of being tired when I get there. And so I thought, let's just see what it's like. Instead of having six hours, which is not enough time to leave an airport and just walk, do laps in the airport, what if we had 13 and we went to dinner and we slept in a hotel and then we got up and we flew the next place? You guys. I loved it. I loved it. I had two on the way into Cambodia. I did dinner in Singapore on the way out. We did dinner in Singapore. Fabulous. I felt like it was so luxurious. It felt so it felt so it felt like I was like a first class traveler. So anyways, that's my share on evaluating doing things a little differently. Your FOMO, like, figure my own self out. I'm tired when I get there. What? What can I do? So that's my little tip there. But I want to highlight that you said, make the decisions when you're in a good mood, because you're correct. People are punishing themselves when they're like, you don't feel good, you feel exhausted, you hate your job, and then you're like, I'm gonna do this. And it's like, it is a punishment. I never thought about it like that. Stephanie O'Dea 15:49  Yeah, no, it's true. I mean, and especially since you're in the fitness realm, the idea of, I'm gonna force myself to do this workout every day, no matter what, with the idea that if I skip a day because I'm sick or I don't feel well, or the toilet overflowed, or the kid had a bloody nose in the middle of the night, I failed. No, no. So I tell people all the time, if you're embarking on a 30-day challenge and it takes you 45 days to do the 30 days, you're not graded, you're not to be in trouble, you're the grown up in the room. You only fail when you completely and totally decide to give up. But but keep going and think of yourself at, again, as that 70 year old, you would be way more proud of yourself for keeping going, even if you have to take a day off here and there. And that's a big part of the sustainability, part of slow living. Lesley Logan 16:48  During the pandemic. I got really interested in, like, some people create habits, and how do they not I don't know if you've read Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies, like having meet expectations. So I thought, well, I'm an upholder. That's easy for me. But what about the rest of the people? As a fitness person who wants people to move, and I always tell people do what's possible. Finishing is optional. Why aren't they listening? Why can't they listen and what's going on? And I got to sit at BJ Fogg, and he talked about these tiny habits. And it's crazy to see how people legitimately cannot do the tiny habit. They actually are like, it's not enough to just put my shoes on. It's like, but you don't go to the gym now. So you're asking yourself to put out the gym clothes early. Pack a gym bag, get everything on, drive to the gym, find a parking space, enter the gym, put the bag in a locker, do the work of oh, you forgot your towel, so now you're gonna be late for work. Otherwise, now you have to leave early, and it's just all we're asking ourselves to do such huge leaps and bounds before we've actually created the ability to do that consistently, and then we fail ourselves. And it's like even when you went to school, you didn't get the F until the end of this the whole semester to get a better grade.Stephanie O'Dea 17:57  Yeah, no, it's true. I mean, when people come to me with those kind of obstacles. First off, I definitely have squirrel brain. I have lots and lots and lots of markers of ADHD. And every time I talk to anyone, because I can talk myself well, I write and I speak so I know how to talk to people. And they're like, you don't have ADHD. I'm like, that's fine. Just, just help me, but, but the only reason I found out is I've got one in grad school, and so she's applying for law school, and so needing to sit for the LSATs and that kind of stuff. All of these things came up. I'm like, there's nothing wrong with you. You're just like me. And I'm like, oh, wait.Lesley Logan 18:33  Right, right. Stephanie O'Dea 18:34  But anyway, as far as that, when I'm working with people who can't break things down in a bite-sized chunk, and they get overwhelmed. Or halfway through the assignment, they're already moved on to something else. We gamify the system. And so earlier, when I gave you gold stars, I legit hand out gold stars if you did something, give yourself a sticker, like, like those old school chore charts on the wall where you're giving yourself a happy face absolutely pay off and then reward yourself. Maybe not if you're trying to do a fitness routine, maybe not with like a hot fudge sundae, but maybe with a pedicure, or maybe with an afternoon off work for no reason except for you want to take a really cozy Bougie nap, and you you have your your weighted throw, and then you're just so happy. That is a reward, and that's something that you can look forward to, but definitely game the system. Lesley Logan 19:33  Yeah, I love gamify. I love a reward, or like something tactical that you can do, like some sort of celebration. But I also want to highlight hi, I also was someone who didn't think that ADHD, and I was like, oh, my husband, my husband has ADHD, right? Because that's where all the symptoms. And he, like, is legit, like, model of a male with ADHD. And we were applying for a business license, type of a thing, like some sort of certificate, and the woman who files the paperwork, I met her, and so we're talking, and she like, okay, you have your women in business certification I'm like, yeah, we've got that. She's like, okay, where's your disability certificate? And I'm like, I'm so sorry I don't have a disability. And she goes, Well, you have ADHD. And I was like, oh, my husband does, but I own the business for the women in business owners, so I don't have she's like, no. She's like, you just haven't been tested girl. You have ADHD. I can see all of it. And I started looking up women signs of ADHD. I absolutely have it, so I'm with you, and we forget how we figured out how we can make our lives work. And so I just want to highlight to anyone listening, if you have ADHD, and that's a reason why it's a problem for you to, like, finish the thing you've started. There is a superpower that you can tap into once you acknowledge it and like you look into how can you work best for yourself? And it's, it is not through punishment ever. Stephanie O'Dea 20:47  Yeah, no, it's, it's celebrating your process. So because I'm a writer, this is the 11th book I've written, I know my process, so I no longer beat myself up. I know for a fact I don't miss deadlines, so that's great news for me, but I also know that I'm not linear. I am up and down and all around and if I have a brainstorm at 3am it's better for me to get up and write any of those how to be a successful published author checklists that they show on the internet for clickbait. That's not me, and that's not really any of us. That's marketing hype that's trying to get you to click. If you've been online long enough I'm certain you have clicked on something only because you were feeling a little anxious, maybe a little vulnerable, and you're like, oh, the answers to my prayer. But the fact is, the answers are inside and with you. And it's not going to come from doom scrolling TikTok. It's going to come when you're calm and you're in a good mood and you're like, okay, I am not feeling the best right now. Not going to gaslight myself. I legit do not feel good in my brain and my body right now. What is the next best step for me to take and then going quiet and then doing what it is, chances are your brain is going to say you need more water, you need to cut back on wine. You need to stay away from Jane down the street, because she makes you feel really shitty. Can I say shitty? Sorry.Lesley Logan 22:19  No, I love it. We love it. And, yeah, stay away from Jane. Stephanie O'Dea 22:23  Yeah, no, just like you, you know, you know. And I get it because, I mean, I met Lesley online. We're all trying to carve our own little niche out. But the thing is, is you're more vulnerable and you're more susceptible to following advice made up by, by stupid businessy. I'm gonna say men, just for lack of a better term, bro marketers, when you're feeling down on yourself. Lesley Logan 22:50  Yeah, it's really interesting, because I, just before I came on this I had a YouTube comment, and it was on a video that was like the best Reformers to buy for home, and I, look, I hate the title because it's that clickbaity title, but I promised myself, okay, I have to do the titles that they want, because these are the things that people will click on. But I can be honest, right? And so I was completely honest about how I don't love the Reformers that are $300 because I know that a quality Reformer costs $4,800 why do they cost $4,800 because they're not made of plastic, because they're made of metal, they're made of wood. It takes, it takes a long time to make them. And they last decades, right? They last decades. And these cheaper ones, while they look very similar to the ones you're seeing in studios, I don't know what the weight requirements are. I don't know if you can stand on them and they have, I don't know that they have the same safety mechanism. So then you're going to take my classes or someone else's classes, and, like, I don't know. So I was very clear of like, here's what I would say. So it ended with, there is not an affordable one. Like, it just isn't. But here are all the things you can do. So this person wrote, okay, so great, so just don't give me a cheaper option so that I could modify the exercises to do the thing. And she was on and on, and she was so angry with me that I wouldn't give her a cheap one to buy. So I actually wrote back right away, because I was like, so you need a car. You need a car that can get you to work, and the car that would be the best gas mileage for you, that would not require any maintenance, it actually has the best safety standards. It's outside of your budget right now. So instead, you would like me to sell you a car that gets the worst gas mileage, that needs maintenance every week, that breaks down on you on your way to work. And so instead of actually getting to work on time, you're now taking the bus anyways, when you could have just waited and taken the bus in the first place until you could afford the car that has the best gas all these things. I'm so sorry I refuse to sell you crap, and I know that's frustrating, but no, I don't want you modifying exercises to make the equipment, because then you're not gonna get the benefits. It just makes me think of this stuff like people. Have gotten to this place that now have gotten so they've now been trained so much by the clickbait they want to be sold the quick, fast thing, but that's not gonna get what you want. So I'm not gonna sell it to you. And it's really, really hard because I you and I are people like we want to be honest with people on the internet. I want a relationship with you whenever I tell you that this is the right thing, that you can trust that it's the right thing. And it's really hard in a world everyone's go so fast they want the thing today, and they'll rather buy the cheap thing than the thing that will get them there. How do you get people out of wanting it quickly? I guess we can help people who don't want to be helped. Stephanie O'Dea 25:35  Yeah. So, so we're recording right now, and I know you are captivating the the video. So this is a standard bedroom that happens to have cabinetry filled filled with crock pots, by the way. But on the other side of the room, I have a framed print, and it says, discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. And that's the thing. Slow your roll, peeps, slow your roll and have a little bit of discipline. We teach children that patience is a virtue. Practice that be that there's a reason why Buddhist monks and people who meditate a lot and do lots of yoga and meditation are calmer is because they have quieted their squirrel brain, and they have delayed gratification enough to know that while sitting in a meditative stance for 10, 20, 30 minutes isn't as quick as a fix as I don't know, taking some drug or down and a half bottle of Wine, but the end goal, if you do it over and over and over again, is so much better. So I'm going to repeat it. Discipline is choosing between what you want now versus what you want most, and keep that most in your mind when you are scrolling, so then you can have that thought of great for them, not for me, right? Great for them, good everyone's everyone is allowed to make money. Everyone's allowed to make money. Great for them. Good for them. They're, they're gaming the algorithm. Good for them, good for them, good for them, not for me. And then now, now I'm going to coach you for a second, Lesley, because I think you're adorbs. I too, get the click bait thing. I know how to play the game. I know when I was writing recipes that it would be way better for me to say this is the world's easiest and best pot roast recipe you'll ever have, better than your grandma blah blah blah. And the fact is pot roast is pot roast, is pot roast, is pot roast. And if you put in paprika versus liquid smoke or blah blah blah, it doesn't really truly matter in the great, big, huge scheme of things. But the hope is you get someone to click, and then that someone gets to know you and see your video and read your writing and connect with you and say, Okay, I get what Lesley is doing here. It's fine. I'm going to cut her some slack. And that's another great, big thing that I would love for us to do online is to remember that there are real humans there, and give people the gift of grace. And sometimes we mess up. I messed up, and the hope is that when I do, I apologize and I acknowledge it, and then I try and better myself. If I don't try and better myself, that's where the problem is, and that's where the disconnect is, and that's not you. You are amazing. Lesley Logan 28:26  Yeah. Well, thank you, and thank you for seeing me, and it is so interesting world out there that we live in. I like to think that everyone's doing it the best way that they can when they know how, you know, I would give that grace, and I think that the more of us who could do that would be the world be a better place. But I think that, you know, we have to just keep doing it. And I agree, like, when we all make mistakes and it's like you get to apologize, and if people can't accept that, it's almost better that they we find out now so they can go away.Stephanie O'Dea 28:53  Totally. It's funny. I'm intolerant now to people who can't own mistakes and apologize and so so again, back to my crazy ego. My crazy acronyms. The acronym for ego is Edging God Out. And regardless of your religious belief, the idea that you are the Almighty and know everything and aren't humble and don't have enough humility to acknowledge a mistake is a big problem. So so check your ego. Just check it, because everybody's shit stinks. They really do.Lesley Logan 29:26  I'm obsessed with you already. You mentioned stopping the scroll a few times, and I think that that is definitely a hard problem for a lot of people, like even people who don't even have to post on the internet for a job. My mom does not have to post on the internet at all, and she but she has a scrolling problem, right? And I even, because I have to open up and talk to the people and respond to comments and all that stuff, I found myself yesterday picking up my phone after the end of the workday to go check and I was like, hold on, I'm not working right now. And I had to, like, literally, put my phone across the room and pick up a book instead. And I was like, what would make reading this book more pleasurable? I liked it all the things, you know, heard different guests say, oh, I'll make it more pleasurable if I was sitting in front my red light. Okay, I'll sit from my red light. I'm gonna do this thing. And I read a book for like, 45 minutes. It was so lovely. It felt so good. I went to bed. I slept so good last night because I did not scroll. But I think it's an addiction that people have to just pick up when they're bored. So how do you stop your scroll? Stephanie O'Dea 30:22  Yeah, so, so first off, you are definitely not alone, and I've been working online for probably a lot longer than you are, because I'm probably a lot older than you are. So one thing I needed to do for myself, and this is only for people who work online, probably is it's not on my phone. My phone is for phone stuff, and work stays work stays on the computer. So and for me, social media is work. It's not pleasurable. It's not fun. In real life, I want to talk to my friends on the phone, text with my friends in real life. So there's that. And then as far as normal, regular, everyday people who have the old school FOMO, and think that they will miss out on staff, schedule it in, time block it. So I'm a huge proponent of time blocking, and the way I teach it is to decide, on purpose that your day is kind of set up like a school day. So think back in high school you are not going to finish your history book in first period. You're just not but the good news is, you'll have first period every day, so schedule in what it is you want to do every day, so you don't have that feeling of having to catch up, because spoiler alert, you will never catch up on social media, they have designed it to be never, ever, ever ending. But if your allotted amount of time, and my suggestion, would be in 10-minute chunks. 10 minutes, set a timer. Love bossing Siri around. She will just set timers for me all day long, and then scroll, do what it is you need to do, and then step away with the idea that it's going to be okay, because you're going to revisit this time block again tomorrow, and it's fine. Lesley Logan 32:01  Oh my gosh. Stephanie O'Dea, I just, I love you, and I love that. I love that permission. Like, it's not like, don't do it. Or it's not like, only you get five minutes a day. It's like, oh, just schedule a few 10-minute blocks. And it's true. You guys walk around this house at any moment. Brad is like, Siri, set a timer for seven minutes, Siri, remind me to do this tomorrow like. Stephanie O'Dea 32:24  I love Siri. I So, so first off, I love the idea of a live-in personal helper. So the fact is that she's in my back pocket all the time is amazing and and I'm very nice to her in case the robots do take over the world. I thank her. Yeah, tell her she's pretty Yeah, just in case you never know. Lesley Logan 32:41  You are better than I. Brad was talking to my Siri the other day, and he was connected to my phone, and he was like, hey Siri, and he's like, she started answering like I told her to fuck off the other day, and she's not come back. So I think that's my fault. You know, when, like, she wasn't understanding me, she kept talking when I wasn't winder and I was just like, fuck off, and she never came back. So I, I don't know. I don't know. Stephanie O'Dea 33:06  Okay, so does that mean you have to, like, go back in the settings and actually turn her back on?Lesley Logan 33:09  I think so. I think that's where we're at. There's an update that's gonna happen tonight. I'm hoping she goes back. At any rate.Stephanie O'Dea 33:18  If she's listening to me right now. I love you, Siri. I'm like, thank you. You're fine.Lesley Logan 33:23  They are and you are correct. I need to be nicer, because the robots are going to take over, and hopefully they just give us permission to keep doing what we love. All right. I could talk to you for hours, but we're gonna take a brief break and then find out how people can find you, follow you and work with you. Lesley Logan 33:38  All right, Stephanie O'Dea, where do you hang out? Where can people just become a more obsessed with you?Stephanie O'Dea 33:44  So I'm a real person. You can email me at any time, and I will write back to you, steph@stephanieodea.com, that's the main site is stephanieodea.com. I do have a slow living podcast, and the new book is called Slow Living: Cultivating a Life of Purpose in a Hustle-Driven World, and that's wherever books are sold. Lesley Logan 34:02  Oh my God, I'm gonna read it. I'm so excited. I feel like, so blessed that we all got to talk like, even think about this and your acronyms are amazing. They're, I mean, you know that already, but they are amazing. And I know several listeners who, because I, I'm lucky enough to get to meet our listeners all the time, and they mention different episode numbers and like, I know this is one that they're going to use, because there's such tangible things that they can do to just take time to listen their body and do what's next? What's the best next thing? You've given us a lot, but you know, we love the the Be It Action Items, the bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted, steps people can take to be it till they see it. What do you have for us? Stephanie O'Dea 34:40  So it's interesting. Before we hit record you were talking about, don't tell people to journal unless you like, tell them how to journal. So I have a guided daily journaling worksheet, and you can download it. It's super, super free, stephanieodea.com/daily D- A-I-L-Y and and people write to me and they're like. I don't do anything else except for this worksheet, and what it does is it helps, again, get you in the right mindset, because it's putting you in a good mood because you're journaling, and then it's helping you move forward on all of your personal and professional goals. So the action steps and then doing it every day, using that muscle creates the consistency that you need for success. Lesley Logan 35:19  So the reason I say I tell guests like, please don't tell them to not journal, because some people say just journal every day. And then I get what do I journal? The reason I know that this is true is because my therapist had told me back in 2020 when I started therapy, I was like, think this is going to be a really long time that we're doing this, so I think I'm going to need to do some therapy. And she said, okay, I want you to journal every day. So the next week I got on, I was like, so what was I supposed to put in the journal? How do I start? Is it a letter? Because I'm an overthinker and a recovering perfectionist, and so I love that you are like, here is a simple worksheet that you can do to journal, because it gives people an idea of how to make the journal work for them. Because I do believe that journaling works. You just, if you don't know what you're doing, it can feel overwhelming.Stephanie O'Dea 36:00  Absolutely and what I like about this worksheet, and it's, it's a printable, guys, so people have tried to put it in a Google form, and that kind of stuff, your brain is different when you're using a pen and paper. And so that's why there's definitely a method to the madness. And I want you to slow down like, hello, spoiler alert, I legit, I want you to slow down. And then also you're collecting data, so you then you can look back and on the worksheet, I ask you what day or cycle you're in, because that's a big deal. So if you're like, how come I walked it last Wednesday? Well maybe it's because you were on day 15, and now you're on day 28 and you hate the world that is important, and that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you, because you are not a spreadsheet, and anyone who says anything, and usually they're bro marketers that you have to like improve yourself by 1% every day, or you're doing it wrong. No, no, because humans have ups and downs and all around and if I can give you any parting words of wisdom, it would be that I just want to hug you and tell you that you're doing a great job and there's nothing wrong with you, and you absolutely can get to where you want to go, but you have to trust in yourself that that you can do the things and then just you'll get there when you get there. Lesley Logan 37:20  I mean, I already thought this is going to be an episode that people would hit save on but, and like, replay just to re listen. But I really think they'll just do that, just for that last part right there, like you're doing a great job. Like we all need Stephanie O'Dea to tell us you're doing a great job. I love that your journal has people put the day of the cycle. Because, yes, we've been talking about that a lot, because that affects how you work out all the different things. And it is true, you are going to have days where you can take over the world, and days where you're like, I just if someone talks to me at all, I'm going to lose my mind.Stephanie O'Dea 37:49  Yeah, yeah. No, it's true. So I've been married 25 years, and sometimes, thankfully, I can just tell Adam. So today's not a day for you to actually engage with me. He's like, oh, okay. Thanks, thanks for the warning. You're breathing wrong today. Sorry. You fix that and circle back around.Lesley Logan 38:11  Yeah, I said to Brad, I said, I don't feel awesome today. He goes, it's the day before your period. You're not going to feel awesome. And I was like, thank you. That's right. That's why I married you. He didn't go, of course, you're awesome. He just was like, You're not just not gonna feel it. And it's like, yeah, thank you. Ah, okay, well, clearly I want to keep talking to you, but we'll do that another day. Stephanie O'Dea, thank you so much for being here, you guys. How are you using these tips in your life? Please, tag Stephanie. Tag the Be It Pod. Tell us how you're slow living. Share this with a friend who needs it. Imagine if all of your friends were like acting in the FOMO in the best way, and they were actually listening to themselves and taking some time. Imagine how much easier that would make your life. So share this with the friends in your life who need them. And until next time, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 39:02  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 39:44  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell. Lesley Logan 39:49  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co. Brad Crowell 39:54  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi. Lesley Logan 40:01  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals. Brad Crowell 40:04  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. 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Thank you for listening! It happens automatically. There is nothing you can do about it. “It” is you being righteous b/cuz of your FAITH in God. It is what it is and therefore you are who your are. So when the self-righteousness enemy called "ego" tries to do it's thing of Edging God "Out, remember. You have a savior who loved you enough to die and your righteousness is gained because of your faith in God. Galatians 2:21 *Note: There is slight static 4 minutes into the episode but it eventually stops.

How are you keeping ego at bay and focusing on fearing God?In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Mike discuss: Building a company by failing your way to success. Leaning into your area of expertise. Leveraging the energy of forward momentum, no matter how small. The important aspects to consider in your exit (especially for those in a family business).   Key Takeaways: Building a relationship with Christ is not about your ego….ego is just Edging God Out of your life.Slow down and be intentional about your quiet time with God, your prayer, your scripture study, and your mentorship of others and for yourself. If you want to sell or exit your business in the future, you have to delegate yourself out of the business. Consider joining a peer group for accountability in accomplishing your goals. Peers can be your most powerful tool.   "Be intentional about a balanced life. Keep God at the center." —  Mike Mitchell Episode References: Halftime Institute: https://halftimeinstitute.org/Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. DweckThe Ideal Team Player: How to Recognize and Cultivate the Three Essential Values by Patrick M. LencioniMen of Iron: https://menofiron.org/ About Mike Mitchell: Mike Mitchell is the Executive Director of The High Center at Elizabethtown College.  Prior to joining the High Center, he was an owner of Amelia's Grocery Outlets and served as President and CEO of the company from 1997- 2012. He oversaw all aspects of the 15-store grocery chain with over 400 employees and a 100,000-square-foot warehouse. The business was sold to a private equity firm, Berkshire Partners and Grocery Outlet Inc., a 442-store chain based in Berkley, California, in January 2012. Mitchell is a graduate of Elizabethtown College and has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.  Prior to joining Amelia's, he worked as a Marketing Manager for several packaged goods companies including Heinz, General Mills, and Unilever.  He has served in several board positions with Herr Foods, Irex Corporation, the Boys and Girls Club, and several other for-profit and non-profit organizations. Michael was the 2010 Lancaster Chamber Small Business Person of the Year and a 2019 Central Penn Most Admired CEO.  He currently attends Community Fellowship Church where he is Treasurer and serves on the Administrative Board. Connect with Mike Mitchell:Website: https://thehighcenter.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-mitchell-86929b73/  Connect with Jeff Thomas: Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/Podcast: https://www.generousbusinessowner.com/Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-upEmail: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisorsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUYpPwkHH7JrP6PrbHeBxw

---------------- SHOW NOTES ---------------- Episode Title: Episode 316: The Gift Of Gratitude - Week 2 Of The Gratitude Experiment – 7 Weeks Of Gratitude Introduction In the second instalment of the 7-week series on "The Everyday Life Balance Show," Pascale invites listeners to deepen their gratitude practice. Moving beyond the foundational step of acknowledging received love, this episode prompts a reflective and, perhaps, transformative journey into the more complex territories of gratitude. Pascale encourages listeners to explore and appreciate not just the pleasant and supportive relationships but also those challenging ones that provoke growth and personal development. With a focus on consistency in practice, this episode is an invitation to embrace gratitude as a habit that can profoundly influence one's life. Key Points         The essence of this week's gratitude practice is to recognize and be thankful for the influential people in one's life, including: - Those who provide support, kindness, and joy. - Individuals who pose challenges or with whom one has conflicts, as they serve as unintended teachers.          Pascale shares a personal narrative to illustrate how unmet needs and expectations in relationships can lead to conflict, and subsequently, emotional growth.
           Key concepts and actions introduced in the episode: - The importance of shifting from a self-centred perspective to one of understanding others. - Embracing forgiveness as a means to "forward love" and to clear negative emotions. - The act of forgiveness is a way to gain clarity and see through the lens of love. The episode's high-value action is to create a gratitude list that includes: - People who have supported you. - Those with whom you have had conflicts, recognizing the growth they have facilitated. Pascale Gibon stresses the importance of expressing gratitude, referencing William Arthur Ward's quote about the necessity of sharing one's gratitude with others.
 Encouragement to express gratitude to significant others, especially those who might not yet know their impact on you.
 An overarching message that saying "Yes!" to love and gratitude is akin to embracing the fullness of life.
 The episode concludes with an invitation to continue the gratitude journey the following week, reinforcing the importance of gratitude in enhancing life's quality and elevating one's spirit. Resources: Episode 315: Unlocking Happiness – Week 1 Of The Gratitude Experiment - 7 Weeks Of Gratitude --------------- TIME STAMP --------------- [00:54] - Introduction to the episode and gratitude experiment [01:02] - Reflection on last week's practice and the challenge of consistency [01:56] - Introduction to this week's focus: gratitude for all types of relationships [02:03] - Contemplative question: Who are you most grateful for this year? [02:10] - Discussion on gratitude for supportive people in our lives [02:22] - The twist: being grateful for challenging relationships [02:40] - Personal anecdote about conflictual relationships and unmet needs [03:16] - The shift from ego to understanding and compassion [03:43] - The concept and importance of forgiveness and how to practice gratitude in the context of conflict [04:08] - The high-value action for the week: acknowledging important people [04:23] - The quote from William Arthur Ward on expressing gratitude [04:35] - Encouragement to express gratitude to significant others [05: 07] - Conclusion: embracing love and life through gratitude [05:32] - Preview of next week's episode and sign-off with well-wishes ………………………. FREE RESOURCES ………………………. Love this? Do you want to live an abundant life? If you answer Yes! Click here to claim now your FREE guide:  Yes! To Love Success Habits: 7 Steps To Inner Peace, Joy And Happiness. 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Meet Pascale, the Founder of The Everyday Life Balance Show, author and "Freedom Coach," your ultimate guide to achieving your vision and fulfilling your dreams faster than you ever thought possible. With an unwavering dedication to empowering women in life transitions, Pascale possesses an innate ability to catalyze transformative change. Her mission is to guide women on a profound journey of self-discovery, enabling them to unlock their true potential and align their soul's purpose with their everyday lives. Pascale's unique talent lies in helping women embrace their greatness wholeheartedly, paving the way for a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling existence while making a positive impact on the world. With Pascale as your guiding force, you can expect to surpass your expectations and manifest your aspirations faster than you ever thought possible. Embark on a life-transforming journey with The Freedom Coach and unlock the limitless potential within you. As a visionary and creative, her life's purpose is to guide you to happiness through love and joy in the context of understanding and compassion. Meet Pascale at pascalegibon.com. ……………………………………………………………... ABOUT THE EVERYDAY LIFE BALANCE SHOW ……………………………………………………………... Welcome to the Everyday Life Balance Show, the podcast dedicated to men and women who want to cultivate greater harmony and balance in every aspect of their lives on a mental, physical and spiritual level. Every Monday, you will gain exclusive access to invaluable insights, practical tools and strategies shared by esteemed experts in various fields ranging from wellness and personal development to life fulfilment, happiness and success. And, of course, your trusted host Pascale Gibon, an authority in her own right as a #1 Amazon bestselling author and “Freedom Coach”. Pascale's unwavering mission is to serve and guide you towards happiness, leading you to discover profound joy, inner peace and balance. With every episode, she invites you to embark on a transformative journey, one step at a time, as you weave a tapestry of a life truly well-lived. For more information go to: https://www.pascalegibon.com/ ………………................ SUBSCRIBE + REVIEW! ………………................ Be the first to know when a new episode is released. Leave a review so that more people can access the Everyday Life Balance Show. Subscribe to Pascale's iTunes podcast: http://bit.ly/id1247430885 Subscribe to Pascale's YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/pascalegibon Read Pascale's latest articles and receive inspirational, transformational and motivational content: pascalegibon.com. Many thanks for your support. With love and gratitude. Pascale  --------------------- FULL TRANSCRIPT --------------------- Hi, and welcome to episode 316 of The Everyday Life Balance Show. As we venture into week 2 of our 7-week journey into gratitude, I remain your devoted guide, Pascale Gibon. I am grateful to you. Thank you for choosing to spend your time with me today.   Reflect, for a moment, on the past week: how did you embody the essence of gratitude? Our initial step on week 1 was to recognize all the love we receive, which you may find challenging amidst the busyness of daily life. Perhaps your biggest challenge is consistency. However, this experiment is about more than fleeting moments of thanks. It is about cultivating a sustained practice of gratitude that can transform your life as you increase the energy of love.   This week, we delve into the heart of gratitude by contemplating a poignant question:   Who are the people you are most grateful for this year?  Naturally, you will think of the people who have offered support, kindness and joy. And while it matters to acknowledge them, I invite you to consider a more profound reflection: gratitude for those who have challenged you the most.     Yes, I am talking about the individuals with whom you have had disagreements or conflicts. They have inadvertently become your best teachers who have helped you grow through adversity.   Let's explore this together with a personal anecdote: Most conflictual relationships are due to feeling that our needs are unmet. More specifically, we expect someone to behave in a certain way, and if they don't, we get disappointed. Picture someone you have clashed with - perhaps there was disagreement, or their presence simply unsettled you. This conflict might have stirred feelings of anger or frustration. In these emotionally charged moments, we find the opportunity to shift our perspective, to understand rather than be understood. You see, in such moments, we seek to be understood, whilst the shift of perception, to understand first, requires us to step beyond our ego (E.G.O stands for Edging God Out) to embody compassion and embrace the transformative power of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the essence of forwarding love or giving love forward. By choosing to be grateful for the growth spurred by conflict, you release the hold of negative emotions and begin to see the world with newfound clarity. Only in Love can you see clearly. As you compile your gratitude list, I urge you to include those with whom you had a conflict and thank them silently or out loud for the lessons, the wisdom they imparted and the opportunity to grow in the energy of love.  Remember the words of William Arthur Ward:   “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”   Now is the moment to extend your thanks and to share the gift of your gratitude. Perhaps there is a parent, a friend or a mentor who has yet to hear just how much they mean to you. Let them know. Let love be your message.   In this episode, I intend to help you deepen the understanding and expression of gratitude in relationships, even the difficult ones.   As we conclude this episode, I implore you to embrace love in all its forms, for when you say yes! to love, you say yes! to the full spectrum of life.   Your high-value action for this week is to acknowledge those you hold dear. And as you do, witness how gratitude enriches your life and lifts your spirit.   I look forward to connecting with you next Monday, for week 3 of The Gratitude Experiment. Until then, I wish you a fantastic week of gratitude and send you lots of love and light.

Dive into the vibrant world of music with Patrick Lamb, a distinguished artist with Billboard chart-toppers and collaborations with legends like Bobby Caldwell and Gino Vannelli. Discover his unconventional entry into saxophone at 14 and his meteoric rise after touring with Diane Schuur.But Patrick's talent isn't confined to melodies. He's a dynamic entrepreneur. From sound companies to concert promotion, he's a force in the industry. For Patrick, risk-taking and unwavering self-belief are paramount in this journey. He unveils the dichotomy of a musician's life - the love for performing, juxtaposed with the business intricacies, from contracts to travel hassles. Patrick's vibrant spirit shines on stage, leaving audiences spellbound. We explore his diverse career, each job a stepping stone to independence. Find out who his guiding light is and who his cherished influence is. Tune in as Patrick dispels the partying stereotype, revealing the dedication at the upper echelons. Tune in and be swept away by the magic of Patrick Lamb's musical journey! Episode Highlights:23:05 - This has been a very humbling experience for me because I've toured with all these artists. You need to show up and it's sold out. You recognize every single concert is a huge opportunity. In fact, the commerce is connection, connect with those people.30:08 - The business is challenging, but it is what it is. I can't say I love the contracting and as you know, there's a lot of phone calls, diplomacy and dealing with people who are wonderful and people are a challenge sometimes. There's a lot of egos. And so, you have to work around that and learn how to deal with that. Ego stands for Edging God Out. 46:41 - I tried to counter because there are a lot of stereotypes associated with music. If you had to ask a hundred people what are the things associated with musicians. They're drinkers, they're partiers, they do drugs, they're unhealthy. But I find that on the upper levels that that's not generally, not the case, at least the people I'm working with. It's become more you have to be on time, you have to have your business together.ContactFresh Coast Jazz FestivalPatrick Lamb

? When was the last time you embraced criticism & correction in your life? How do you even know which voices to listen to and let speak into your life? Join Kent as he dives into this important topic looking at the book of Proverbs. Let's grow together! ?? #SermonTime. IT'S EASY TO GIVE at Harmony, text any amount to (859) 459-0316 to get started (or give online @ my.harmonychurch.cc/give ). ----------------- OPENING ILLUSTRATION: Years ago, when I was a youth pastor. I was at this camp and we had a “morning show” it was basically a way to wake up all the kids and get them excited for the day. We would get up there and do gross games and make jokes and make it super fun and set the expectation for the kids. Every day I would have the kids turn to their neighbor and say, “best camp ever…” in a derogatory and negative way. The kids would do it and I would laugh and get them to laugh and we'd move on. Finally, my buddy Jason Schmidt pulled me aside after a few days of this and he rebuked me. He said, “Kent, all the kids love you and follow you and when you make it like camp is no fun, you set the attitude for all of them… you're a leader, you need to lead them better…” Man, that hit me hard… If I'm honest, his words stung me a little bit. But, as I sat back and looked at it Most of my growth as a leader has come from the hard truthful things and the people who risked telling them to me rather than through the easy things of life. don't you find that to be true? ILLUSTRATION: Years ago I tried my hand at making knives. The thing that shapes a knife from blank steel into an instrument you can cut with is heat, pressure, and friction. The process of producing a tool requires the removal and reshaping of material - it takes heat, pressure, and friction SCRIPTURE: This week, we are taking a breather from Basecamp because I want to challenge you to expand your thinking to be willing to embrace a concept that our world has in some ways lost. Your growth as a human is partially a product of the heat, pressure, and friction in your life - so stop running from it. Let me explain. I've told you the culture of the Kingdom of God is not the culture of the world we live in. One of my biggest worries is that over the course of Basecamp, you are going to hear certain concepts and ideas and because they challenge the status quo, you are going to reject them instead of being willing to consider them. b They will feel like Rebuke, and our culture is scared to allow anyone to tell them they might be wrong. b Let's look at some of what the book of Proverbs says about Rebuke to give us a pattern to use for personal growth. 1. Restructure your thinking about discipline… Proverbs 12:1: "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid." Discipline is not the same as punishment. -Discipline is the means to course-correct -Discipline comes from a desire of what is best for a person ILLUSTRATION: Good parents know how to teach this concept to their children. The reason you are correcting them is because you love them, not because you hate them. I tell my kids all the time if I hated them, I would let them do whatever the heck they want. It is my love for them that puts me in a position to do the hard things and bring correction. What keeps people from loving discipline/correction [have the bullets appear one at a time] Our Ego (if you operate out of pride or fear, you will innately reject discipline.) Our Past Experience (you've carried wounds that keep you from being able to hear the discipline as a loving interaction) Our Culture (so many of us have bought into the cultural idea that you should be able to “live your truth” that we ignore when our truth needs to be reshaped) This brings me to a good point… How do you know which rebuke or discipline to listen to? 2. Tuning your ears for Wisdom Proverbs 15:31: "Whoever heeds life-giving correction will be at home among the wise." ILLUSTRATION: One of the weird things about being a pastor is you have hundreds of people who all have an opinion about how and what you should do and feel like it's their biblical mandate to let you know those things. Harmony actually is a very uncommon church and I don't get tons of this. But I've had more rebuke than you can imagine from the style of music a church uses, to the temperature of the thermostats, things I've said in a sermon, the way I dress, to a million other things. I'm sure I'm not alone in that You've got the same thing… the over-opinionated employee, that parent of your student who wants to tell you how to run your class, How do you know what to listen to and what not to listen to? b I love this proverb because it doesn't tell you to listen to ALL correction, it tells you to heed “life-giving” correction Learn from what is life-giving and discard the rest… b How do you know what's “life-giving” correction? b Here are the personal metrics I use to determine life-giving (I want at least 2 out of 3 of these to consider the correction): -Does the person bringing correction love Jesus? -Does the person love/want what's best for me? -Does the person love/want the best for the organization or mission? There are certainly other metrics you should use, but these will help you get where you need to go The key is to realize you don't have to take all corrections - but you can be wise in what you invite and who you invite to give you corrections.. ILLUSTRATION: If you tell me my sermon was a stinker I might listen. But if my wife or one of our elders says that to me, I'm going to for sure listen. Their known proximity to me, to Jesus, and love for this church would dictate that for me. Make sense? 3. Good leaders look for the person who grows from adversity Proverbs 19:20: "Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise." ILLUSTRATION: Early on in my career, I thought I had to be a know it all. I thought I had to have an answer for every problem. I had to always be on top of every situation. This unintentionally put me in a position of pretending and not being open to feedback. I've known a pretty large group of talented people who never progressed in their field simply due to their inability to take feedback and correction. How do you change that attitude? it takes two things: Take the pressure off: realize no one, including God, needs you to have everything together Address your ego: change from Edging God Out to Exalting God Only CLOSING ILLUSTRATION: You know, one of the little talked about things that Jesus did was to rebuke His disciples. At one point, He said to them, “are you still so dull?” like, “are you not even getting this stuff I'm talking about?” Another time, Peter said something that sounded SUPER spiritual and good and Jesus responded with “get behind me Satan, you don't have in mind the things of God, but of man” I want to bring this up to you at the end of this sermon not because I think I'm in some position to correct or discipline you or rebuke you, but because Jesus is still in the business of rebuking us - it's really a means by which He turns our hearts back to Himself. The scripture is clear that God uses hardship to discipline us - turn us back to Him. God cares way more about your discipleship than your comfort - He cares that you are looking more like Him than looking like what you want this life to look like. What would it look like for you to intentionally take a step to be willing to let God offend your modern sensibility? Because I promise you, the longer you follow Him, the more you will find the beauty of being seated with the wise and accepting the Lords discipline and rebuke! --------------

Meet our Guest Mary Leonard "Mary Leonard is originally from Chicago, IL. She is the daughter of Bernard and Margaret (DeBiase) Leonard and the youngest of 3, she has 2 older brothers that are 13 and 11 yrs older.  Her father was a Lt of the River Forest Fire Dept in Chicago and her mother was a homemaker.  She always knew that she would be in the entertainment field after going to the movies and seeing "The Sound of Music". Mary was a dancer, until an unfortunate accident which resulted in her dance career coming to an abrupt end. She has always enjoyed bringing smiles to people's faces through her sense of humor. She has the ability to transform a character's feelings and dramatic situations & make it real. Mary can play that astounding role & make you feel as though your heart is going to be ripped from your chest because you can feel her characters pain, just as well as her having that "dry comedic sense of humor". She feels very fortunate that her career has flourished. She is able to do dialects, most of her own stunts, play a variety of sports and musical instruments. Mary is an all around actress who likes to improvise and is easy to work with. She likes to make the projects she's working on fun, believable and meaningful. Her motto is to Be Kind to Each Other, Live, Love, Laugh, Dance and Accept Diversity. She always is there to be a core team-member because she feels the way to succeed is to be there for the complete cast and crew of a production not just for herself. She does not believe in an EGO as she always states that EGO is Edging God Out of your life. She always tries to be a positive influence, as she always says, you never know what someone is facing in their life, therefore if she can bring a smile or an act of kindness she feels that she is walking the talk and somehow passing along hope when one might be feeling hopeless. She believes that EVERYONE is EQUAL and IMPORTANT and wants people to know they are ALL WORTHY. Her hope is to see mankind come together to unite in love, respect and equality for all. Https://IMDb.me/MaryLeonard  (VI)  Tiktok M.L. @dancinmary1 Instagram mary_leonardactress --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/moviemakingpod/support

Dr. Wayne Dyer famously defined the EGO as Edging God Out. I don't know about you but I remember growing up hearing the phrase “Cleanliness is next to Godliness” more times than I can count. Yet when it comes to cleaning, we often approach it from an ego-centric perspective. It's more about the facade of clean. It's more about what things look like. (Or smell like!) But in reality, “clean” doesn't have a smell. The multi-billion dollar cleaning industry would have you believe otherwise. They also want you to think that every surface AND kind of dirt requires a different product to do the job “right.” In this episode, I discuss the trade-offs we make to create the facade. Our health. Our children's health. The extra space in our cabinets we use to house all the things we supposedly need. The environmental impact. And so on. This episode is designed to help you evaluate those spring cleaning urges as they arrive; where they come from; and how to take action from your authentic self. And what is most directly aligned with the vision that you have for yourself and your family. We often think of clutter as mess. But when we take a hard look at how and why we do the things we do, or feel like we should do, we can start to see even the things that we use to clean and organize as a source of our distress. For the full show notes, go to: episode webpage

................................. FULL TRANSCRIPT ................................. Hi, I'm Pascale Gibon. Welcome to episode 277 of The Everyday Life Balance Show. Thank you for tuning in.    It's St Valentine's week, so Happy St Valentine's Day on the 14th of February if you celebrate it.    Yes! To Love - The ultimate guide to personal transformation for everyday life balance is my Amazon bestselling book. In this episode, I will share the first principle of the Yes to Love philosophy.    The Yes! to love philosophy is a calling to look at life from a different perspective. The life perspective it pushes forward is not one of constant struggle, stress, overwhelm and hitting your head against the wall but one of peace, love and inner and outer balance.    Yes! denotes an affirmation, an engagement, a commitment and the activation of a positive perspective for your life and the world. Love is the highest energy there is. When you say Yes! to Love, you commit to all that is glorious.    The first principle of the Yes! to Love philosophy is to change your attitude if you want to change your environment.     Your attitude to life will determine whether you live a happy or unhappy life.    Regarding attitude, Earl Nightingale, the father of personal development, motivational speaker, writer and radio personality, expressed the following:    “Our environment is really a mirror of our mental attitude. If we don't like our environment we have to change our attitude first.”   Our attitude is the combination of our thoughts, feelings and actions. It yields great results when it is great and bad results when it is bad.    Can you think of the consequences of your attitude when it is a good one and when it is a bad one?    For example, someone says something that displeases you, and you react harshly to what they say. The argument leaves a bitter taste in their mouth and yours.   Let me give you another example. The attitude of uncontrollable anger affects your well-being. It creates stress in the body and generates a feeling of mistrust, inadequacy and resentment.    On the other hand, a never give up attitude when you have a dream and face many obstacles increases your motivation and likelihood of accomplishing your desired goal.   In one of my episodes, I share the mental faculty of memory and how we need to use memory well to transform our results. If we constantly remember how other people have hurt us, we have forgotten that we have hurt others too, albeit consciously or unconsciously. Most importantly, we have obliterated how much love we have received from others and our loved ones.   A loving attitude is one of appreciation, understanding and compassion. It brings peace and balance and is not the affair of the E.G.O, which stands for Edging God Out.   For the sake of salvation, I believe that increasingly humanity needs to embody love, their divine nature, and see the world with a loving heart.     The world might seem hostile because you choose to view it as such. Additionally, if you believe it is so, this is how it will appear in reality due to two divine laws: the law of cause and effect and the law of vibration.   I have a different outlook at the heart of the Yes! to Love philosophy. Do you agree that if we were to create order and design a picture whereby we look at the human condition and the world differently with the eyes of love and compassion we would build a better world?    Remember that despite human suffering, so much beauty surrounds us.   We grow in love when we care about others and develop a consciousness whereby we see the beauty in things and others and not only the ugliness.    For example, I record this episode from Guadeloupe, a beautiful Caribbean island. As I look around, the sea, green scape, palm trees and coconut trees surround me. It's blissful!   A great attitude yields a great result. I watched a documentary about high cases of cholera in some African countries. It appears that the solution is simple. It is to build water wells to give the inhabitants safe access to clean water. The non-profit Wells For Life commits to drilling wells, restoring wells and building sustainable communities. This project is a lifesaver for many villages.   Darkness is necessary to see the light. It is the law of gender. Personally, I had to go through the dark night of the soul to give my life meaning. However, we do not need to sink deep into the darkness as a way of life. That is not the meaning of human existence because love is our essence. It seems necessary to learn how to shed the protective shield and rust that covers our hearts to grow in wisdom and love unconditionally.    Our attitude to life will determine whether we are capable or not of seeing the world with loving eyes and developing a loving heart. I believe that love is essential to create a better world, improve our relationships and live a great life.   Life is always happening for us. Other people's attitude is that life is happening to them. Their mindset would be: "If only…" "I can't..." "It can't be helped..." "Why me…" "Why now…"   What might transform your mental attitude is striving to find a solution to any difficulty. You do not exist to suffer but to live your best life.   In this episode, I invite you to say Yes! to Love and see the beauty in everything and everyone. See the beauty in your loved ones, friends, colleagues, neighbours and others. The E.G.O Edging God Out will help you see others' negative side. However, there is goodness in each one of us. It is our mental attitude that determines our environment. The goodness you desire to see in others comes from you first.   As we celebrate St Valentine's Day this week, what can you do to develop a loving attitude? Any attitude other than a loving one is contrary to your divine nature. Love is the highest energy.    My Yes! to Love vision might seem naive. However, to live in the spirit of love requires a loving attitude.    I hope you enjoyed this episode.   Remember, now is your time to transform your life one step at a time.    Your action step is to reflect on the following question: What can you do to develop a loving attitude?   I look forward to connecting with you next Monday.    Have a fantastic week of celebrating love. Take care and lots of love.    Got a question for Pascale? Click here to connect. P.S.: Click here to set up a plan to achieve your most important goal this year and schedule a complimentary “What's Next” breakthrough call with Pascale. ………………………. FREE RESOURCES ………………………. Love this? Do you want to live an abundant life? If you answer Yes! Click here to claim now your FREE guide:  Yes! To Love Success Habits: 7 Steps To Inner Peace, Joy And Happiness. Watch now the three-part video training: "7 Key Principles To Achieve Your Dreams." In this training, you will learn the principles that govern the achievement of your goals. Click here to get immediate access: Listen to The Everyday Life Balance Show on Apple iTunes: http://bit.ly/id1247430885 Listen to the Everyday Life Balance Show on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/ELBStitcher Listen to the Everyday Life Balance Show on Google Play: http://bit.ly/ElBSGoogle Listen to The Everyday Life Balance Show on Soundcloud:  https://bit.ly/ELBShowCloud Listen to The Everyday Life Balance Show on Amazon: http://bit.ly/EDLBShow ………………………………….. CONNECT WITH PASCALE ………………………………….. http://www.pascalegibon.com https://facebook.com/pascalegibonfanpage https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalegibon https://www.instagram.com/pascalegibon https://www.twitter.com/pascalegibon ……………………... ABOUT PASCALE ……………………... Pascale Gibon is the #1 Bestselling author of YES! 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She has the particular talent of helping you walk 100% in your greatness with confidence and harness your unique divine gifts and abilities so that you can live your life to your fullest potential and be the best that you can be with the energy of love. As a visionary and creative, her life's purpose is to inspire and empower you and guide you to happiness through love and joy in the context of understanding and compassion. Meet Pascale at pascalegibon.com. Got a question for Pascale? Click here to connect. ……………………………………………………………... ABOUT THE EVERYDAY LIFE BALANCE SHOW ……………………………………………………………... The Everyday Life Balance Show is a weekly self-help show for individuals who want to create more balance and harmony in their life on a mental, physical and spiritual level. Every Monday, you get access to insights, practical tools and strategies from experts in their field of wellness, personal development, life fulfilment, happiness and success and from your host Pascale Gibon. 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Jason Lachance is the host of the awesome Knockin' Doorz Down podcast. He works at a nonprofit based in Fresno, CA called "Parents and Addicts In Need" (PAIN).He's a California native, a father of two teenagers, and a passionate advocate for all things recovery. His sober story and outlook on life will give us some much-needed encouragement as we move through the holidays.Among other topics, Jason and I discuss:* Jason's "red flag" that his drinking was out of control: a lack of coping skills in relationships* Seeking validation from others because of a dual addiction to both sex and love* The concept of "no outside solutions to inside problems" in our life of recovery* The idea of "Edging God Out" (ego) and how Jason learned to connect with his higher power* The importance of mirror work and positive self-talk, among other best practicesYou can connect with Jason on Instagram @jasontlachance and listen to his podcast "Knockin' Doorz Down" via https://linktr.ee/knockindoorzdown. To learn more about Parents and Addicts in Need (PAIN)and their amazing work including their own podcast "Don't Hide the Scars," visit https://painnonprofit.org.---Looking for more great content and meaningful sober connections?* Join the I Kissed Alcohol Goodbye "Sober Family" Facebook group at www.facebook.com/groups/ikissedalcoholgoodbye* Download my mini-course, "3 Hacks for Early Sobriety," via my Linktree (https://linktr.ee/ikissedalcoholgoodbye).* Become an OG member of the IKAGB Premium Service where you get 6 perks for just $6/month! To join, visit https://ikissedalcoholgoodbye.supercast.com.* DM me on Instagram @ikissedalcoholgoodbye or email ikissedalcoholgoodbye@gmail.com...we're Sober Family, so let's keep breaking up with booze together!Much Love and Peace,--Dana, Owl & Spruce :-)

In today's episode, Jeff is joined by a special guest, Thomas Elrod. Thomas has been in the Glover U world since the beginning, and today he's a top producing agent in North Carolina. Early on, he was able to grow his business from 27 transactions to over 100 in 1 year, and in this episode, he shares the key strategies he implemented at a really high level since 2013.    Today's market is starting to look a lot like the market Thomas got started and succeeded in, so his insights on becoming a really great listing agent couldn't have come at a better time. You'll learn about the mindset, activities, and habits he put in place to win clients, and how to turn 1 transaction into multiple opportunities.    We also discussed: The key car sales skill Thomas brought into real estate The difference between water skiing and scuba diving in our conversations  How to protect your commission in any market  Why our health has to line up with our business's   Quotes    Sellers are looking for a proactive agent, not a reactive agent. -Thomas Elrod   Ego stands for Edging God Out or Eliminating Growth Opportunities. -Thomas Elrod    In this business you're not going to be successful everyday, but by doing this business everyday, you're going to be successful. -Thomas Elrod   When you run to the things you don't want to do, that's where your growth gets accelerated. -Thomas Elrod    The happier you are, the better you feel the more productive you'll actually be, and the better at conversion you'll be. -Jeff Glover     Key Points    Door knocking the homes around your just-listed or just-sold property can actually lead to more listings. If someone has listed and sold a home, it will trigger action on the part of the people thinking about selling. There's probably someone in the neighborhood thinking about moving soon, and you can capture that opportunity by simply reaching out (and letting your seller know that's what you'll be doing).    Every listing can potentially give you up to 7 checks:   The seller sells The seller buys The seller refers a friend Sign calls Open houses Internet leads  The seller becomes a returning client and sells later    Now that the market has shifted, people are starting to respect traditional low-tech methods of generating business again. Many brands are investing in direct mail, because it now feels more personal than emails and social media. This perfectly lines up with what's happening with our lead generation efforts. In this market, the value of marketing declines, and the value of prospecting increases, so you'll see a drop in the ROI of billboards, radio and social media. This is why perfecting your traditional prospecting skills is so critical right now.    When you pay for a prospecting tool, marketing resource, coaching program or anything else to improve your business or yourself, you'll feel the pain of a monthly check more than the pain of one lump sum, and this will influence the energy you put towards implementation. 

Are you edging God out? Are you holding onto your ego and not letting yourself be who you're meant to be? Are you holding yourself back? If you are, you're in for a big surprise! EGO can be viewed as an acronym. Edging God Out, but there is another as Dr. Dunni will show on this episode.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Thinking about yourself isn't all bad, but it can make communication, relationships and life in general very difficult. When you're focused on yourself in your own cocoon, it can be very easy to close yourself down to others, close yourself down from your true purpose and close yourself down from God. Grief can be a source of self discovery. By working through pain, you can discover your own story and your own inner strengths.   BEST MOMENTS  “At that point I was wrestling my desire to empower mothers, to reach out to the world with my nature of being introverted.” “We hold on to broken experiences, but we want something new. We need to let it go.” “The gratitude strategy is for the good, the bad and the ugly things we've experienced.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.drdunni.com/show   CONTACT METHOD support@druwaacademy.com Ig- https://www.instagram.com/druwa.lifecoach/ YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9C1oJwHyISEuqiX8USaYKg CH- https://www.clubhouse.com/@drdunni-druwa FB- https://www.facebook.com/druwaacademy Twitter- https://twitter.com/Druwa8    ABOUT THE HOST Your host Dr Dunni is the mum empowerment coach, Family doctor, International speaker, Best-selling author of the book ‘Every Mum is a super mum' and a mum herself who is passionate about health and wellbeing. She is proficient in using natural, scientific and medical wellbeing concepts to explain in simple terms practical ways and strategies to avoid ill health and promote overall well being of body, mind, soul and spirit. This is made available by the provision of online courses, books, coaching and regular events where wellbeing strategies and tactics are shared to enhance holistic wellbeing. Learn more at https://www.drdunni.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joseph Holmes is the author of 45 books including his best seller Loving Yourself Wealthy: the Power of Angels, Volume 3. Joseph is just a humble messenger hoping to help and inspire others on their life journeys. He is a modern-day Irish/American mystic and troubadour, writer and poet with an inspirational story of his healing from trauma and PTSD through the grace of his guardian angels Mary Magdalene and Mary of Galilee (lovingly referred to as “M & M”). His healing journey began when he was 7 years old and took on a rapid acceleration in the 1990s with physical visitations from M & M. Then, on an early December morning in 2012 Mary Magdalene began transmitting her spiritual quatrain poetry through Joseph and today (2020) they have thousands of her poems available to help people create lives full of meaning, significance, love, joy and success. Joseph has taught and spoken to hundreds of individuals and groups over the past 40 years. Mary Magdalene has asked him to begin sharing her message with the world. In this episode, Joseph talks in detail with his experiences with both Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene. He expresses the importance of getting out of your mind and into your heart and that love is the only thing that is real. Once you go into your heart, you will recognize your gifts and then you can share those gifts with the world. The 3 things I learned from this episode is 1) angels show up because your receptive to it 2) ego means Edging God Out and 3) when you follow your heart, it's natural for doubts and fears to show up. Links to contact Joseph and purchase his book: The book we will be discussing, The Power of Angels, Vol. 3: https://amzn.to/3AhvoR0 YouTube: https://bit.ly/3plH8No LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/2dUNmhl Facebook: https://bit.ly/2URlTI8 Instagram: https://bit.ly/3xKAvYm Twitter: https://bit.ly/3emXzob If you have a weird or unusual experience/story and would like to be on the show, email me at contactstargazingangel@gmail.com. Visit us on Facebook www.facebook.com/myweirdestexperiencepodcast and show your support by liking our page and our check out our website hwww.tinakinneyclarke.com/my-weirdest-experience-podcast.html Music: Bensound --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/myweirdestexperience/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/myweirdestexperience/support

Topic: Being a Giver   Guest: Audrey Jacobs   Bio:    Audrey Jacobs is a Vice President and Wealth Advisor in the San Diego office of Bernstein Private Wealth Management, creating holistic and customized analyses for high-net-worth families, individuals, trusts, foundations, and endowments. She works closely with clients and their professional advisors on complex planning issues such as pre-transaction planning, multigenerational wealth transfer, philanthropy, retirement planning, and asset allocation. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Audrey was a founding partner of OurCrowd, a global platform to invest in Israeli and global startups. Previously, she established the local chapter of StandWithUs, an Israel advocacy organization. Audrey earned a BA, cum laude, in political science and English and completed the Executive Education Program in finance and accounting at Columbia Business School. Audrey has been an active leader and philanthropist in the Jewish community and the arts for over 25 years. She's also an active connector and matchmaker as featured in her TEDx Talk, “How to be a Matchmaker in Work, Life and Love.” She is also the founder of the San Diego Israel Coalition and Audrey's Tent. Audrey serves on the global board for Partners in Torah. She has received awards and fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, L.E.A.D. San Diego Woman of Valor, and the Nahum Goldmann Fellowship. In this inspiring discussion, we cover:   1. Mission Statement 2. Strong Women 3. Don't Overstay the Welcome 4. 'Ego' and Edging God Out 5. Partners in Torah 6. What is Legacy 7. Humility and the Value of Money And much more!

On Day 15 of the Mind Management Challenge, Swami Mukundananda explains the one significant barrier to our progress in life, which is our Ego. EGO stands for Edging God Out. Watch more to learn how our Ego prevents us from making progress in life and how to get rid of it. Listen to this motivating message by Swamiji and Meditate to practice humility and get rid of EGO. Do share your experiences with us in the comment section.

................................. FULL TRANSCRIPT ................................. Hi, I'm Pascale Gibon. Thank you for listening to episode 206 of The Everyday Life Balance Show.  Maintaining healthy relationships is challenging because of the diversity of characters and predominant egos. The existence of various characters means divergent ways of viewing life. And we base the way we view life on the way we individually experience the world.  Two beliefs determine the way we respond to our life experience: Life is happening for you Life is happening to you. You harness your limitless power when you believe life is happening for you. On the opposite side, when you believe that life is happening to you, you are convinced that you cannot create better circumstances. Our close relationships can become messy because we are at ease with the people we love. In other words, we might hurt the people closest to us. Yet you can apply one foundational principle now to transform all of your relationships, which I will reveal to you in a minute. Fasten your seat belt because this requires a lot of wisdom. Ego, E.G.O means Edging God Out. I borrowed this definition from Wayne Dyer. With this definition in mind, whenever we allow the E.G.O to control our lives, we distance ourselves from our true divine nature, which is love.  How does the ego dominate in relationships? Here are some examples: We insist that we are right and the other person is wrong We expect others to behave in a certain way We refuse to listen We get jealous We compare ourselves to others and suffer from an inferiority complex We blame others We remain resentful for the rest of our life And most importantly, we take love instead of giving love. I am sure you can hear how we edge God out with some of the characteristics of the ego I have just described. I want to introduce you to a different perspective based on love and aligned with our true nature.  Judgment characterizes the ego. "I am stronger than you, I know more than you, I am better than you, this is mine etc." The dominance of the ego is centred on separation. Wisdom, on the other hand, consists of using our experience to make others happy.  One true story we often hear of is that of a father and son becoming estranged, for example. They lost contact for years because the son did not feel loved by his father. Then after his father passing, the son realizes that his father loved him very much and held him dear in his heart. It appears that what the father struggled with the most was showing love.  When we view the E.G.O as edging God out, anything that is ego-based is out of alignment with the truth. Therefore, we need to be increasingly aware of when our behaviour is ego-based. When the ego dominates, this is feedback. Domination of the ego gets in the way of healthy and harmonious relationships and reveals a misalignment with our true nature. We are aligned with something when we resonate or associate with it. In times of conflictual relationships, there is one life-changing principle that can help you develop better relationships. This principle is extracted from Stephen Covey's book: the 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People. The principle Steven Covey shares regarding relationship is: “Seek first to understand then to be understood.” Let me ask you a question: In times of conflict with another individual, may it be your spouse, child, parent, sibling etc. do you meet them where they are? In other words, do you seek to understand where they stand in their thinking? In the case of conflict, when you seek to understand the other's viewpoint, an energy shift can rapidly happen around the relationship. The reason is simple you view the other person from a place of love and not as the enemy. There is no separation; from the moment you change your vibration from hostility or judgment to unity, understanding, compassion and love, the relationship becomes more harmonious. When you apply Stephen Covey's principle, you become more compassionate, understanding and loving. Besides, the individual you battle with is your best teacher. They allow you to see in yourself something you could not see.  I hope you enjoyed this episode. As always, remember now is your time to transform your life one step at a time. Here is one action you could take today to accelerate your success:  Do you have someone in your life you are close to you misunderstood or failed to understand first? And this has caused a rift between you? If you can identify that person, work now on understanding them first by meeting them where they are. When you do so, you will start to understand why they acted the way they did, and they will open up to you.  I look forward to connecting with you next Monday. 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Living from the place of “Edging God Out” can be painful. As we learn to make friends with our ego, and live a more soul-based life, not only do we feel better, we attract better things, and bring more light to the world. Dr. Tammi addresses this subject and shares things we can do to claim this transformation for ourselves.

This podcast episode continues my story of my own Spiritual Awakening in 1995. Though, in this episode I make the distinction that we have many awakenings throughout our lifetime. There is usually one, though, that stands out from the rest. The one that makes a huge impact and shifts your entire being and thought processes. This topic is especially relevant these days as many people are experiencing their awakenings due in large consequence of the pandemic. We were able to slow down and look at our lives. As someone who has had the big Holy A (a capital A - awakening), and then going back into a spiritual closet for 25+ years I know how obstructive this dance of ego vs. spiritual awakening can be if we aren't mindful of our experience and how we integrate it. Here are the main themes of this particular episode: Ego - and my opinion of how to work with it Spiritual Awakening/s Psychic Abilities Mental Illness “EGO is Edging God Out.” Wayne Dyer First I give you a little context and well, my opinion, about EGO and how we can navigate WITH it. I am not a believer in killing it or for that matter making it something we should be ashamed of. It's part of our human experience. In fact inside the episode I say,   “I don't think you could take me seriously if I was my higher divine self. You know we wouldn't even need words. Actually. It's important to remember that, yes we are divine beings. We have a higher self who sits up in a different dimension, and part of it sits in our bodies. But we chose to come into a human body. We decided to walk the Earth. And when you do that, you also invite an ego into that journey. Okay, I'm going to get off the soapbox. I think what I like or who I like to remember in this moment about ego is Wayne Dyer. He took the acronym.He took the word made into an acronym. Ego is Edging God Out." I also talk about my journey specifically to give context on how the ego was driving the deal and not necessarily my awakening or spiritual intuitive psychic gifts, per se. I remember that night when everything got really scary. And I take you through that moment to show that I was really not well. Admittedly, I was on such a HIGH from being constantly guided I couldn't see my own ego at work! I also wasn't taken very good care of myself. I was completely ignoring things because it felt so good to be in this high vibration ALL. THE. TIME. It is a slippery slope we travel when we have awakened to our gifts. One can get easily confused if we are on our own with our thoughts, feelings, senses and psychic experiences. I think it is important to note that the Ego work is always an ongoing and important thing we must do. Ego's grow as we grow. They are cunning and deceptive. And if you think ahhh finally I nabbed that one! Sure enough you will see it's still very much alive. Egos can also facilitate our healing. They are very good in showing us what needs our attention. But we don't have to give into the Ego. That is the REAL path to spiritual enlightenment: To be aware of the Ego but not to succumb to it.   Well, I believe, without understanding everything that was going on, my Ego took over at one point. Or many points. I was accepting so much on full faith and openness I wasn't really living in this realm. I know a lot of us want to escape it. We want to go to a different dimension. Us, light bringers and workers. It's hard to be here. And it's especially hard to be here when you know all these things. You are given all this information. What are we supposed to do with it on this planet? Ya know, when most people will just call you crazy. Right? It's hard to step up and give a voice to these things. It was definitely damn hard in 1995. Doing this work alone was very much what was REAL for me in 1995. But it doesn't have to be that way now. Many of us, light workers, way showers, spiritual mentors & guides have come out of hiding to be seen and found by those who need our guidance. And I am proudly one of them! I feel strongly that if I had had more like-spirited people or a had any kind of community, mentor or coach that could have anchored me this might've helped me stay out of the mental hospital. It was the only help available to me at that time. And something, I very much needed, help! I can see that now when I look back in retrospect. If you are feeling alone in your spiritual awakening and journey, please consider joining my private online community the Woo House. We are here to help you feel seen as you are, safe in an environment with others like you but also on a platform that is not easily found, to feel supported in what you are experiencing and finally celebrated, because what you are able to perceive is amazing and that needs to be honored! For more details on this community, please check it out over here. Go back to listen to the WHOLE story: I mentioned these episodes in this episode. If you haven't heard the beginning of my 1995 flashback you can go here: Flashback 1995 1 Flashback 1995 2   Did you enjoy this podcast? Please share with me your thoughts in the comments

Ego shows up when you live your life in fear.  Don't manifest what ego stands for: Edging God Out.  We invite you to be on the same frequency that God is on, living your life in faith and not in fear.Music Produced by https://www.instagram.com/thadonavelar/

This story is about the Ego which some have said stands for Edging God Out.  False concepts of the Ego:  1) I am what I have 2) I am what I do 3) I am my reputation 4) I am separate from everyone else 5) I am separate from what I want to attract into my life 6) I am separate from God The Ego prevents us from connecting to the Power of Intention  

Ego is also broken down as Edging God Out or Edging Good Out.  The point is our ego keeps us from being the brightest light we are called to be and steps 7 and 8 are all about the power of humility.  Rev. Soni Cantrell-Smith, founding member of the Ahava Center for Spiritual Living in Lexington, KY joins me again for our twelve step series.  Please go to https://www.ahavacsl.com/give to send a love offering to Ahava for letting us borrow Rev. Soni for this series!  Support the show (http://Patreon.com/LeviKreis)

As humans, we all have an ego. Wayne Dyer said the E.G.O. stood for Edging God Out. Matt Kahn says the ego is the result of an overstimulated nervous system. Whatever you believe it to be, it is not who you are at your core. It shows up fiercely to falsely inflate your sense of worth, and just as quickly to squash you into a small victim mindset. How confusing is that? On today's episode, we unpack the ego and talk about how to soothe it when it gets the best of you. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/themorninglightshow/support

www.LouiseCourville.com -  Get my Feed Her Funnel here. This funnel is for building your list, validating your offer and generating passive income into your business. If you are a B2B CEO and want to Ignite your Brand, then tell us more about what you do by going here.  www.Louisecourville.com/network-igniter Today's daily deposit is: Let Go Let God. It's Sunday today, and this is a quote from the great Wayne Dyer. He also says that EGO is an acronym for Edging God Out. During this whole process, I've learned that I need to let go and just let it happen. Do you LOVE Girl Boss Coaches? Have you subscribed? I want to encourage you to do that today. I don't want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe in iTunes! Now if you're feeling extra loving, I would be really grateful if you left me a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find my podcast and they're also fun for me to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let me know what your favorite podcast is. Thank You!

In life, humans are always looking for ways to control their environment.  We are at times, looking to control our children, our spouses, loved ones and more.  Why is it we focus so much on control and more importantly, does controlling more of your life truly lead to a life of inspiration and fulfillment? In this episode, I dive into what is known as the "EGO" to many but I don't give it the bad rap many people do.  Ego has been known as, "Edging God Out."  But, I share in the beginning the necessity of your EGO and how it benefits you in a specific way.  I will dive into a way on how I share and get stuff out of my system so I can stay peaceful and calm in most of any situation the Universe brings to me. Lastly, I will share why finding the path of inspiration, fulfillment and returning back to your child-like perspectives is in the UNCERTAINTY in life rather than the CERTAINTY.  Tune in for more! ----more---- Get Connected with Dr. Vic Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrVicManzo Instagram: www.Instagram.com/DrVicManzo LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/DrManzo YouTube: Bit.Ly/38QULv91   Purchase a Copy of Dr. Vic's Book at a Discount http://bit.ly/37GY4UK   Hire Dr. Vic as Your Mentor/Coach http://bit.ly/2F7zUpU   Email DrVic@EmpowerYourReality.com