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Divorce Crash Course If you want more help understanding the divorce process, avoiding expensive mistakes, and knowing what to expect before you make major decisions, check out the Divorce Crash Course.Guided Divorce Meditations For the moments when you're about to send the email, respond to your ex, or completely lose your shit, our guided meditations are designed to help you calm your nervous system before you make the situation more expensive.Your divorce lawyer may be expensive — but sometimes the thing making your divorce even more expensive is… you.In this episode of How Not to Suck at Divorce, Andrea and Morgan break down the habits that can make a divorce case harder, longer, and more expensive, even when you think you're being helpful. From trying to run your own legal strategy to rewriting documents with AI, over-emailing your attorney, negotiating with your ex without being prepared, and withholding important information, this episode is basically a loving intervention from your divorce lawyer. Morgan explains why clients sometimes accidentally create more legal work by trying to save money. One major example? Redlining legal documents or using AI to rewrite agreements without understanding whether those changes would actually work in court. That often means your attorney has to undo the work, start over, and spend even more billable time fixing it. Andrea and Morgan also talk about the emotional reason people do this in the first place: divorce is terrifying. When your children, finances, home, and future are involved, it can feel impossible to hand over control to another person. But that fear can push you into micromanaging your lawyer, chasing answers that don't exist yet, or relying too heavily on AI for legal strategy. You'll also learn a smarter way to communicate with your attorney, including when to pick up the phone instead of sending a novel-length email, how to comment on a legal document without trying to rewrite it yourself, and the exact kind of question to ask when you're waiting on opposing counsel and starting to panic. The episode also tackles one of the biggest traps in high-conflict divorce: negotiating directly with your ex when there is a history of control, pressure, or manipulation. Morgan explains when direct negotiation can actually save money — and when it can backfire badly if you go into the conversation without knowing your legal boundaries. And finally: do not hide things from your lawyer.Whether it's a fight, missing money, an agreement you made directly with your ex, or something you're embarrassed to admit, your attorney cannot protect you from information they do not have. Morgan explains why withholding key facts can seriously damage your case — and in some situations can even lead an attorney to withdraw from representing you. What You'll LearnWhy trying to be your own divorce lawyer can cost you more moneyWhen AI can help during divorce — and when it absolutely should notWhy you should not use ChatGPT or Claude as your legal strategistHow to communicate with your divorce attorney without racking up unnecessary feesWhen to call your lawyer instead of sending a long emailHow to review legal documents without rewriting them yourselfWhat to do when opposing counsel is not respondingHow to negotiate with your ex without getting pressured into a bad dealWhy you need to tell your divorce lawyer the whole truthHow fear and anxiety can quietly make your divorce more expensiveA Better Way to Follow Up With Your Divorce LawyerIf you're waiting for a response from opposing counsel, Andrea and Morgan suggest asking something like:“It's been X amount of time since we heard from opposing counsel. What is a realistic timeframe for a response, and if we don't hear back by then, what would our next step be?” That gives you information, a timeline, and a plan — without sending your lawyer four emails in one week asking whether they've heard anything yet. Divorce, AI, and Your Legal StrategyAI can be incredibly useful for organizing information, brainstorming questions, calming yourself down, or helping you prepare for a conversation.But AI does not know your judge.It does not know your local court.It does not understand the history of your case the way your attorney does.And it may confidently give you an answer that sounds brilliant and is completely wrong for your situation. Use the robot. Just don't let the robot run your divorce.ResourcesDivorce Crash Course If you want more help understanding the divorce process, avoiding expensive mistakes, and knowing what to expect before you make major decisions, check out the Divorce Crash Course.Guided Divorce Meditations For the moments when you're about to send the email, respond to your ex, or completely lose your shit, our guided meditations are designed to help you calm your nervous system before you make the situation more expensive.Our Family WizardOur Family Wizard is the most respected coparenting app and we seriously want you to consider it. and We are the only podcast that can save you 20% off your first year. Private Community Join our free private community for support from people who actually understand what this process feels like.Mentioned in this episode:Our Family WizardHow Not to Suck at Divorce is proud to be the only podcast that can offer you 20% off your first year of the essentials package. 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Find out where you are being held back. The quiz takes three minutes: amenkaur.com/quizYou have been trying harder than you have ever tried, and it is not working. This episode looks at what actually happens to your sense of worth when you lose the thing you had been proving it with, why affirmations can make it worse, and two things that genuinely help.Underneath most people-pleasing there is one thing going on. We are trying to prove we are worth something.But proving your worth and feeling your worth are two different things, and one does not lead to the other.In this episode I look at what actually happens when the thing you had been proving yourself through is taken away. Why effort stops working at exactly the point you need it most. Why the advice you have been given, including affirmations, can make it worse rather than better. And two things you can do this week that actually restore something.I also share what happened in my own working life, a client of mine who went from being made to feel less than to thriving in a different environment, and a wasp at my daughter's window.In this episode:Why losing a role can feel like losing yourselfWhat the pursuit of self-esteem actually costs youRigid persistence, and why trying harder is not the same as trying wellWhat stress does to the part of your brain that makes decisionsWhy affirmations backfire for the people who need them mostThe open tab, and why unfinished things drain youTwo things that give you your capacity backThe research referenced:Jennifer Crocker and Connie Wolfe, Contingencies of Self-Worth, Psychological Review, 2001Jennifer Crocker and Lora Park, The Costly Pursuit of Self-Esteem, Psychological Bulletin, 2004Robert Vallerand and colleagues, on harmonious and obsessive passion, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003Amy Arnsten, Stress signalling pathways that impair prefrontal cortex structure and function, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2009Joanne Wood, Elaine Perunovic and John Lee, Positive self-statements: power for some, peril for others, Psychological Science, 2009Kitty Klein and Adriel Boals, Expressive writing can increase working memory capacity, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2001Gabriel Radvansky and David Copeland, Walking through doorways causes forgetting, Memory and Cognition, 2006Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz, Give your ideas some legs, Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2014Find out where you are being held back. The quiz takes three minutes: amenkaur.com/quizIf this episode landed, rating the show is the single most useful thing you can do to help someone else find it.
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Your primary care provider is doing their best. But there's something they may not be telling you — not because they're hiding it, but because they simply can't know everything.In this episode of Your Health University, Jamie Preston sits down with Scott Middleton — Founder and Chief Disruption Officer of Your Health — to talk about one of the most underutilized parts of the American healthcare system: specialty care. Scott shares real stories from the field that will make you rethink what you expect from your next appointment, including a patient who had been living in a nursing home for years without ever being offered a weight-loss medication that was available to her, and a lawsuit that turned on a single chest x-ray that no one thought to order.What you'll learn in this episode:Why your primary care provider legally cannot keep up with every new medication, treatment, and specialist recommendation — and what to do about itWhat GLP-1 medications are, who qualifies, and why so many eligible patients are never told they existThe standard of care around lung cancer screening for smokers — and why not knowing this can have life-altering consequencesHow to ask for a specialist referral (and what happens if your provider pushes back)Why behavioral health is one of the most under-accessed specialties in America — and how to change that for yourselfWhat "integrated care" actually looks like when it works — and what you deserve to expect from your healthcare teamYou are the CEO of your own health. This episode gives you tools to act like it. www.YourHealth.Org
What if the reason you keep struggling to “stay consistent” isn't because you lack discipline?For so many driven women, the strategies that helped us succeed earlier in life—pushing harder, demanding more of ourselves, overriding what we feel, and trying to stay in control—quietly stop working in midlife.And yet instead of questioning the strategy, we often question ourselves.In this episode of Masks Off, I'm joined by Courtney Townley, author of The Consistency Code and host of the Grace & Grit Podcast, for a conversation about why consistency in midlife requires something very different from more willpower.Courtney shares why self-leadership—not self-discipline—is the real foundation for lasting change and why rebuilding our health and our lives requires what she calls “cell to soul health.”We talk about:Why high-achieving women often believe they should be able to push through anythingWhy the growth strategies that worked earlier in life may stop working in midlifeThe difference between self-discipline and self-leadershipHow self-criticism keeps us trapped in cycles of starting, stopping, and starting overWhy consistency requires learning how to stay in relationship with yourselfWhat happens when our body begins asking for something our old identity doesn't know how to giveHow to rebuild self-trust after years of overriding yourselfWhy finding your way back to yourself may matter more than becoming another “better” version of yourselfThis conversation goes far beyond exercise, food, or habits.It is about what happens when the woman who has spent years managing everything finally begins asking:What do I actually need now?Because perhaps the answer isn't to become more disciplined.Perhaps it is to become someone you can trust to lead yourself.You don't need more discipline.You may need a completely different relationship with yourself.www.graceandgrit.com, @gracegrit, courtney@graceandgrit.comConnect with Kim;
One-to-one coaching, BEST LIFE Retreats, and the BEST LIFE Mastermind — what each one actually is, who it's for, and the honest story of why one of them just got rescheduled.It's episode five in the Back to School of Midlife series, and Laurie is calling this one registration day. You've sat through a month of lectures — the coaching philosophy, the BEST LIFE framework, Learn/Earn/Yearn, the Four C's — and now it's time to actually look at the course catalog and figure out what you're signing up for.There are three ways to work with Laurie right now: one-to-one coaching, the BEST LIFE Retreats, and the BEST LIFE Mastermind. In this episode she breaks down exactly what each one is, who it's actually built for, and how to tell which one is right for you (hint: it's not a spreadsheet decision). And she doesn't dodge the elephant in the room — she also tells you exactly why the Mastermind, originally slated to launch in September, has a "rescheduled" sign taped to the door right now, and what changed.This is the most practical, least tactical episode of the series so far — less framework, more "here's literally how you'd work with me if you decided today."What we cover:Why Laurie is calling this episode "registration day" — and finally handing you the actual course catalog for working with herThe three ways to work with Laurie right now: one-to-one coaching, BEST LIFE Retreats, and the BEST LIFE MastermindWhy so many high-achieving women instinctively reach for 1:1 coaching first — and the fear (not the logic) that's usually driving itWho 1:1 coaching is actually built for: a woman who already knows the decision and needs support implementing it, on her own timelineWhy group coaching is Laurie's personal favorite way to be coached — and what she gets from listening to someone else get coachedWhat the BEST LIFE Retreats actually look like: 4-7 day immersive experiences, not a ballroom full of note-takingWhere the 2027 retreats are happening: Civana in Arizona, Sun Valley (the original BEST LIFE Retreat location), the Viceroy in Cabo, and ParisThe surprisingly common reason your body gets sick right when you finally clear space to focus on yourselfWhat you actually leave a retreat with: full clarity on your BEST LIFE, plus a real 5, 10, or 15-year planWhy a retreat alone isn't always enough — the gap Laurie kept watching her clients fall into once they got homeWhat the BEST LIFE Mastermind is: two in-person retreats plus monthly group coaching calls, including "hot seat" coachingThe honest, real-time story of why the Mastermind's original September 2026 launch got rescheduledWhy the original Tuesday–Friday retreat format didn't account for how much vacation time women already had booked for the yearThe new format: Thursday evening–Sunday morning retreats, cutting the time-off ask from eight days to one or twoWhy the container grew from a planned 9 months to a full 12, now starting January 2027, capped at 10 womenHow to actually know which of the three options is right for you — and why it's a body response, not a logic exerciseThis week's homework: noticing which option sparked something in you, and getting curious about whyQuotable moments"Sometimes the class you actually want has a sign taped to the door that says, 'Rescheduled.' Not canceled, just not today.""Anytime somebody tells me they just need to work harder, it just means that they're lacking clarity.""I mean, we've got our shit together, and we can turn it on when we need to.""It's a little shot in the arm, right? It's go in, get this shot of clarity, and then go home and implement it.""The time off math wasn't mathing, right?""Let's stop living the same week on repeat and start making choices that actually reflect who you are now.""There's no pressure and no pitch, just a real conversation about where you are and what might actually help."Homework assignment for this episode:Notice which of the three ways to work with her actually sparked something in you — not which one makes the most sense on paper, but which one you felt something about in your body. Write it down. You don't have to act on it yet — just get curious about why that one.→ Send her an email→ DM on Instagram→ Book a no-pressure, no-pitch conversation with LaurieResources + links mentionedBEST LIFE Mastermind — launching January 2027, applications/waitlist open nowJoin My Mailing LIstEmail Laurie
What if nothing is terribly wrong with your life…and you still want something else?The job is fine. The relationship may be good. You've built things you once prayed for, worked for, and genuinely wanted.And yet something inside you keeps whispering:“Is there another menu?”
A 31-year ironworker doesn't scare easily. But ask Dino DePasquale what keeps him up at night, and it's not the job site; it's the industry's silence around mental health.Dino built DePasquale Steel over 21 years and created the Steel Erector's Playbook along the way. In this episode, he goes to the side of construction leadership nobody puts on a business card: the suicide and overdose statistics haunting the trades, the impossible task of "shutting work off," and why connection might be the most underrated safety equipment on any crew.Jesse and Dino don't stay in the dark for long. They dig into why leaders hesitate to teach and mentor publicly because of confidence, added responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong out loud; and how Dino turned his own mistakes into the systems now running his company. His answer to burnout and bottlenecks? "Clone yourself" through documentation and training, so the business doesn't live and die by one person's memory.Then things get real when Dino walks through a recent job that went sideways, and what it actually looks like to earn trust when you own the problem instead of hiding from it. He also previews his plans to help lead a construction-focused peer group on mental health.If you run crews, run a business, or just run yourself into the ground more often than you'd like to admit, this episode's for you.In this episode:The mental health and addiction crisis hiding in plain sight across constructionWhy "shutting off" work is a skill most leaders never learnBuilding a peer support network for an industry that doesn't ask for helpTurning mistakes into systems: how to document, train, and clone yourselfWhat it really takes to earn trust after a job goes wrongProtecting focus time and staying resourceful enough to climb the ladder 00:00 Industry Pain Opens00:14 Meet Dino DePasquale02:17 How Hard Is It02:59 Steel Life Story04:59 Mental Health Crisis08:46 Peer Group Plans09:23 Addiction And Overdose11:19 Jesse Recovery Story15:23 Why Share A Playbook18:55 Cloning Yourself Systems21:00 Confidence To Teach26:39 Document Your Day28:26 Track Your Time29:00 Stop Answering Every Call29:31 Delegate With Clarity32:15 Progress Over Perfection32:55 Being Real Online36:24 Job Went Off Rails37:58 Own The Fix41:35 Purpose Beyond Hard Work46:42 Resourcefulness To Advance51:46 Where To Find Dino53:32 Why Converge Hit DifferentLets leave the Construction Industry Better than We Found It https://www.depthbuilder.com/construction-leadership-lab Download the free PDF copy of Becoming the Promise You are Intended to Be
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-zoe-shaw-1409b5122/Book: Stronger in the Difficult PlacesDr. Zoe website: https://drzoeshaw.com/You had the answer. You did not say it. And you spent the drive home wondering why.Most women file that under imposter syndrome. Dr. Zoe Shaw has a different diagnosis, and it changes what you do about it.Dr. Zoe Shaw is a licensed psychotherapist with a doctorate in clinical psychology and more than twenty years in practice. She is the author of Stronger in the Difficult Places and the host of the podcast by the same name. Her specialty is shame, including a form of it that most standard advice never reaches.In this conversation, you will hear:Why imposter syndrome is not a personality trait, and why that distinction changes everything at workThe small word habit that quietly costs women credibility in meetingsHow to locate exactly where you are hiding, using one sentence you already say to yourselfWhat to do after your manager tells you to wait until next yearWhy courage comes first, and the feeling you are waiting for comes secondDr. Zoe's own story, and the decades she spent carrying it aloneYou are not being overlooked because you lack value. Often the impact you create has simply never been said out loud in the language leadership uses to make decisions.Ready to put words to yours? Start with the Free Impact Clarity Tool: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin
Take the free 3-minute quiz → https://amenkaur.com/quizFind out which of the five patterns is keeping you stuck. Ten questions, about three minutes, free, with your own reading and a short audio from me.How to change your life when you already know what to do and still can't do it.You've read the books. You've done the courses. You've made the plan more than once. And still, the thing you keep meaning to change hasn't changed. That isn't a discipline problem.A clinical psychologist called William Miller spent his whole career studying addiction and behavior change, and kept meeting people who had been stuck for years and then changed in a single moment. Not slowly. Not through treatment. All at once. When he asked them what had actually changed, none of them said willpower. They said what mattered to them had rearranged itself.In this episode I take you through five steps you can do in one sitting, with a pen and paper or your voice notes, to find the system running underneath your behavior and start changing it. I share the belief I carried for thirty years, where I got it from, and the ordinary evening that made it impossible to keep carrying.The fifth step is the one almost nobody teaches, and it's the reason so much change is temporary.What we coverWhy trying harder works against you, and what actually moves firstThe two kinds of sudden change Miller found, and what they had in commonHow your value structure got built before you had any say in itWhy overgiving and proving your worth are one belief, not several habitsWhy your body objects when you say something true about yourselfWhat completion is, and why change doesn't hold without itWho this is forIf you are capable, functioning, and stuck. If you're starting over after a divorce, a redundancy, an empty nest, or leaving a career that defined you, this is the episode about why knowing hasn't been enough.Do this with meHave a pen and paper, or your phone's voice notes. Pause where you need to. This is a doing episode.Research referencedWilliam R. Miller and Janet C'de Baca, Quantum Change: When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives.Find out which pattern is yours: https://amenkaur.com/quizbehavior change, identity, self worth, burnout, nervous system, quantum change, William Miller, values, overgiving, people pleasing, women in transition, coachingchange your life in one day, personal development, five steps to change, motivational interviewing, overcoming fear, self-help strategies, value reorganization, shifting priorities, building confidence, behavior change, identity transformation, self-worth improvement, breaking bad habits, self-discovery journey, emotional freedom, creating meaningful change, personal growth techniques, effective life changes, mindset shift, understanding addiction recoveryDisclaimerThis podcast is for education and reflection. I'm a coach, not a doctor or a therapist, and nothing here is a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. Step three in this episode asks you to look at difficult things on purpose. If that brings up more than you can manage alone, please speak to your GP or a qualified therapist. If you're in crisis, contact emergency services or a crisis line in your country.
What if some of the advice you've been faithfully following is actually the thing keeping you stuck?In this episode of Magic Made, Megan and Chrissy are unpacking the best, worst, and downright limiting advice they've picked up throughout life, business, and their creative careers.From being told you have to look a certain way to be taken seriously, to the infamous "niche down" rule, we're talking about what happens when helpful guidance quietly turns into a cage.Because advice can be valuable. Mentors can change our lives. Experts can teach us incredible things. But that doesn't mean every rule, strategy, or piece of wisdom belongs in every season of your life.We get into creative freedom, authenticity, personal branding, finding your niche, breaking business rules, trusting yourself, and knowing when it's time to take an old piece of advice and lovingly show it the door.CHAPTERS:00:00 The Advice That's Keeping You Stuck01:16 Why We Take Advice So Literally03:17 You're Allowed to Break the Rules04:15 The Business Advice That Kept Megan Small06:25 Being Yourself IS the Differentiator09:17 Who Are the “Business Police?”12:01 The Best Creative Advice Chrissy Ever Got13:35 The Power of Three18:02 The Worst Advice: “Niche Down”20:03 When Your Niche Starts Feeling Like a Cage21:49 Why Creators Get Stuck on Social Media24:29 When Advice Kills Your Creativity27:08 Advice Is an Invitation, Not a CageIn this episode:Why we take advice from experts so literallyThe business advice that kept Megan playing smallWhy being yourself can actually become your differentiatorChrissy's surprisingly useful "Power of Three"Why "niche down" isn't always the answerThe danger of creating for an algorithm instead of yourselfWhat happens when business advice kills creative joyHow to decide which advice is actually right for YOUWhy advice should be an invitation, not a cageYou don't have to throw away every rule or stop listening to people who know more than you. You just get to decide what stays.
What if being blessed has less to do with what you have and everything to do with who you belong to?In “The Overwhelming Blessings Found Only In Christ | You're More Blessed Than You Think,” we walk through Ephesians 1 and discover the spiritual blessings that are already ours because we are united with Jesus. Before we accomplish anything, prove anything, or earn anything, God has already revealed how He sees us and what He has made available to us through Christ.Paul reminds us that in Jesus, we are loved, chosen, adopted, accepted, redeemed, and forgiven. These aren't blessings reserved for a future season or dependent on our circumstances. They are present realities that reshape our identity, our relationship with God, and the way we live today.In this sermon, you'll discover:What it means to already possess every spiritual blessing in ChristWhy God's love for you began before you could ever earn itHow being chosen and adopted changes the way you see yourselfWhat it means to live from God's acceptance instead of working for itHow redemption and forgiveness reveal the overwhelming richness of God's graceIt's easy to measure how blessed we are by what's happening around us—what we have, what we've achieved, or what we're still waiting on God to do. But Ephesians 1 invites us to see blessings differently. Our greatest blessings aren't dependent on our circumstances; they're rooted in everything that has already been made ours through Jesus.When we begin to understand what we've already received, blessings take on an entirely different meaning. Instead of looking at our lives through the lens of what we lack, we can live confidently from what is already ours—His love, His grace, His acceptance, and the freedom He purchased for us.The blessing isn't simply what God gives us. The blessing is what we have found in Christ.
What if being blessed has less to do with what you have and everything to do with who you belong to?In “The Overwhelming Blessings Found Only In Christ | You're More Blessed Than You Think,” we walk through Ephesians 1 and discover the spiritual blessings that are already ours because we are united with Jesus. Before we accomplish anything, prove anything, or earn anything, God has already revealed how He sees us and what He has made available to us through Christ.Paul reminds us that in Jesus, we are loved, chosen, adopted, accepted, redeemed, and forgiven. These aren't blessings reserved for a future season or dependent on our circumstances. They are present realities that reshape our identity, our relationship with God, and the way we live today.In this sermon, you'll discover:What it means to already possess every spiritual blessing in ChristWhy God's love for you began before you could ever earn itHow being chosen and adopted changes the way you see yourselfWhat it means to live from God's acceptance instead of working for itHow redemption and forgiveness reveal the overwhelming richness of God's graceIt's easy to measure how blessed we are by what's happening around us—what we have, what we've achieved, or what we're still waiting on God to do. But Ephesians 1 invites us to see blessings differently. Our greatest blessings aren't dependent on our circumstances; they're rooted in everything that has already been made ours through Jesus.When we begin to understand what we've already received, blessings take on an entirely different meaning. Instead of looking at our lives through the lens of what we lack, we can live confidently from what is already ours—His love, His grace, His acceptance, and the freedom He purchased for us.The blessing isn't simply what God gives us. The blessing is what we have found in Christ.
Why doesn't mental health advice change what you actually do? You can name your attachment style, explain what co-regulation means and know exactly why yelling isn't helping, and still lose it before school drop off. In this episode I talk with Sana Qadar, host of the ABC's All in the Mind, about the gap between knowing the research and using it, the mental health words that have lost their meaning, and the one parenting strategy she took home and used within the week.Things we discussedHow a journalist who trained to be a war reporter ended up hosting a psychology podcastWhy being fluent in mental health language isn't the same as changing your behaviourThe anti yelling advice from Dr Lindsay Gibson that fixed Sana's morning routine overnightTurning the school morning into a game instead of a fightThe difference between willpower and building a system around yourselfWhat has actually changed in how we talk about mental health in the last five yearsTrauma, ADHD and narcissism used as catchall terms, and what gets lost when they areHow Sana decides how much of her own life to share with listenersWorking out whether the person giving you advice online is actually qualifiedWhy almost every episode about the brain turns out to be a story about a relationshipWhat makes you hard to live with, and what it means when someone calls you unreflectiveTimestamps0:00 Intro1:40 From war reporting to psychology and neuroscience2:40 Why knowing the research doesn't mean you're doing the work4:40 The parenting advice she took home and used that week6:20 How much of yourself to share when you host a show9:20 The basket of paper tasks that changed their mornings10:10 What has shifted in how we talk about mental health11:00 Trauma, ADHD and therapy speak as catchall labels12:40 The story that stayed with her16:00 What it's like being the one getting interviewed21:30 How to work out if someone is qualified to give advice24:30 Why every brain story is really a relationship story27:20 What makes you hard to live withAbout SanaSana Qadar is the host of All in the Mind on ABC Radio National. She spent ten years working in international news before moving into psychology and mental health reporting, and has been hosting All in the Mind full time since 2021. She isn't a psychologist or a therapist, which is exactly why this conversation is useful. If you have a topic you'd like the show to cover, you can email allinthemind@abc.net.au.Resources and linksAll in the Mind podcast – get it on the ABC listen app or where ever you get your podcasts Keep the conversation goingGot a question or a topic you'd like covered? Send it through here: forms.gle/ExJAeBTXAfn8xGkQ9
How I Fought Myself—and WonSome of the toughest fights in life don't happen against another person.They happen inside our own heads.In this solo episode, Sensei Nick shares a personal story from his high school years that taught him one of the most important lessons of his martial arts journey: the greatest opponent is often ourselves.Faced with a major classroom presentation, overwhelming self-doubt, and the fear of standing in front of his peers, Nick discovered that the same principles used in martial arts training could be applied to life's internal battles.This isn't a story about winning a tournament or earning a belt.It's a story about preparation, integrity, courage, and learning how to move forward even when fear is telling you to stop.Topics include:The connection between martial arts and public speakingFighting self-doubt and internal criticismWhy preparation creates confidenceLearning to act despite fearThe importance of integrity and honesty with yourselfWhat martial arts teaches us about pressureWhy the biggest battles are often invisible to everyone elseBuilding confidence through action instead of waiting for confidence to arriveOne of the most powerful lessons from martial arts is that we train for challenges long before they appear.The same principle applies to life.Whether you're facing a difficult conversation, a career change, a presentation, a health challenge, or simply the voice in your head telling you that you're not enough, the skills you build today prepare you for tomorrow's battles.The opponent may not always be standing in front of you.Sometimes the opponent is fear itself.Connect with Sensei Nick:Email: tabersmartialarts@gmail.comWhat internal battle have you had to overcome? What challenge taught you something important about yourself?Send an email or leave a comment on your podcast platform of choice. We'd love to hear your story.Thank you for listening to Real Talk with Sensei Nick.
“You got to come first from a giving standpoint rather than from a taking standpoint.” – Bret Ridgway Today's featured bestselling bookcaster is a 25-year veteran of the speaking industry, marketer for small businesses, and entrepreneur, Bret Ridgway. Bret and I had a fun chat about his new kids' book, “Games Animals Play (When We're Not Looking)”, transitioning from writing business books to children's books, and his mission to donate 1,000 copies to schools and communities in 2026, and more!!Key Things You'll Learn:How Bret's grandchildren and the phrase "crickets playing croquet" inspired his new children's book seriesWhat's the difference between writing for children and adultsThe fastest way to feel better about yourselfWhat one skill has he learned and sharpened since his last appearance on the showBret's Site: https://laughandlearnlibrary.com/Bret's Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004WEH2Z6/allbooksThe opening track is titled, “Unknown From M.E. | Sonic Adventure 2 ~ City Pop Remix” by Iridium Beats. To listen to and download the full track, click the following link. https://www.patreon.com/posts/sonic-adventure-136084016 Please support today's podcast to keep this content coming! CashApp: $DomBrightmonDonate on PayPal: @DBrightmonBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dombrightmonGet Going North T-Shirts, Stickers, and More: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/dom-brightmonThe Going North Advancement Compass: https://a.co/d/bA9awotYou May Also Like…645 – How to Build a #Profitable Speaking Business with Bret Ridgway (@bridgway): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-645-how-to-build-a-profitable-speaking-business-with-bret-ridgway-bridgway/327 – The Go-Giver Way of Elite Performance with Bob Burg (@BobBurg): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-327-the-go-giver-way-of-elite-performance-with-bob-burg-bobburg/979 – From Anthills to Authorship with Ron Kinscherf (@Papatellmeabook): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-979-from-anthills-to-authorship-with-ron-kinscherf-papatellmeabook/586 – Flipping Bad Situations into Joyful Children's Books with Violet Lemay (@violetlemay): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-586-flipping-bad-situations-into-joyful-childrens-books-with-violet-lemay-violetlemay/793 – How to Bounce Back as a Children's Book Author with Rella B. (@RellaBBooks): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-793-how-to-bounce-back-as-a-childrens-book-author-with-rella-b-rellabbooks/559 - Picky Patrick With Eleni Fuiaxis (@EleniFuiaxis): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-559-picky-patrick-with-eleni-fuiaxis-elenifuiaxis/1032 – A Grandmother's Fight for Disability Representation in Books with T. L. McCoy (@BlueRoundBG): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-1032-a-grandmothers-fight-for-disability-representation-in-books-with-t-l-mccoy-blueround/1075 – From Classroom Bells to Children's Books with Kirsten Telan (@ktelan1): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-1075-from-classroom-bells-to-childrens-books-with-kirsten-telan-ktelan1/1087 – Becoming a Multi-Genre Author and Creative Force After 50 with Teri Brown (@TeriMBrown1): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/becoming-a-multi-genre-author-and-creative-force-after-50-with-teri-brown-terimbrown1/835 – Turn Words Into Wealth with Aurora Winter, MBA (@AuroraWinterMBA): https://www.goingnorthpodcast.com/ep-835-turn-words-into-wealth-with-aurora-winter-mba-aurorawintermba/
About the episodeWe're communicating more than ever, and AI has made producing polished language almost effortless. So why does it feel harder than ever to actually move people? Kelly Urban, CMO at Maui Jim and formerly VP of Global Media Relations, Influencer Marketing, and Social Media at GoPro, joins Rachel Truair to explore what's actually changed in how we communicate, and why confidence, not polish, might be the real foundation of persuasion. Kelly makes the case for going to AI last instead of first, explains why trust is harder to earn than attention even though attention gets all the anxiety, and names the one piece of leadership advice she'd erase completely. The question underneath it all: if AI can write almost anything, what's the one thing only you can say with heart?Quotes“Attention can be captured very quickly, but it can go away so fast.”“I think the inflection point is are you going to AI first or are you going to AI last?”“If you can find that magic spot of being very personally connected to your team, you will be able to lead in a way that others can't.”From the conversationWhy getting distribution used to be the hard part, and getting attention is nowWhether steadiness or reinvention actually builds a stronger brandGoing to AI first vs. going to AI last, and why it might decide whether you keep the ability to think for yourselfWhat most leadership advice gets wrong about staying professionally distant from your teamWhich is harder to earn right now, trust or attention, and why that's the wrong question to answer too quicklyAbout the guestKelly Urban joined Kering Eyewear in September 2025 as the CMO of Maui Jim after serving 11+ years as a VP of Marketing at GoPro. Urban is responsible for driving global brand strategy and expanding awareness for Maui Jim's sun and optical collections across B2B and B2C audiences internationally. Urban is based out of Kering's Manhattan office.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellybaker1/
Your HR tech is only as good as the process behind it. Most small businesses are running payroll, time tracking, benefits, and onboarding across three to six disconnected tools — the data doesn't talk, nobody owns the whole system, and you're paying for modules that were never turned on.In this series finale, Kerri walks through:The five core functions every HR payroll system should cover — payroll processing, employee records, time and attendance, benefits administration, and HR workflowsHow to audit the tech you already own before you spend a dollar on something new (pull the contract — you're probably paying for modules you never activated)What you actually need at each stage: under 10 employees, 10–30, and 30–100+Why implementation fails — and why the software company isn't going to chase you down to finish itHow to make your benefits broker bring enrollment technology to the table instead of buying it yourselfWhat to understand about PEOs before you sign a co-employment agreementThe five SOPs every small business needs documented, with or without softwareYOUR ACTION ITEM: This week, pull the contract for every people-related tool you pay for and write down four things per tool — what it does, what it costs, who's using it, and whether you're actually using it for what you bought it for. If only one person knows how to run payroll, fix that this month.
Send us Fan MailSomeone praises your work, and before you've even thought about it, you've handed the credit away. “Oh, it was a team effort.” “I got lucky.” “It was nothing, really.”It feels like the humble thing to do, which is exactly why learning how to take credit for your work without bragging is harder than it sounds. Every time you deflect credit that's genuinely yours, you're quietly teaching the people around you that your best work wasn't really yours, and that habit has a real cost when promotion decisions get made.In this Monday Momentum episode of Communicate to Lead, Kele Belton breaks down how to take credit for your work without bragging. She explains the difference between bragging and stating a fact, why so many women deflect in the first place, and a simple two-part strategy for owning your contribution while still sharing credit with your team.What You Will LearnThe difference between bragging and stating a fact at work, and why the fear of the first makes women avoid the secondWhy deflecting credit quietly erases the track record your advancement is built onHow to take credit for your work in two parts: own your contribution first, then share credit without erasing yourselfWhat to say when someone praises your work, so you accept it with confidence instead of deflecting or downplayingWho This Is ForThis episode is for women leaders, managers, and high-performing professionals who do excellent work but tend to deflect credit and who want to own their contributions with confidence and grace.Your Action StepThe next time someone praises your work, resist the urge to deflect. Offer a simple thank you, followed by one factual sentence about your role. For example: “Thank you. I rebuilt that relationship over the past six months, and I'm glad it paid off.” Then stop talking, and let your contribution stand.Common Questions About Taking Credit at Work1. How do I take credit for my work without sounding arrogant?State your contribution as a fact first, then share credit if you want to. Stating what you did isn't bragging; it's accurate.2. Why do I keep deflecting credit at work?For many women it's an automatic habit, often rooted in a fear of being seen as full of herself or not a team player.3. What should I say when someone praises my work?Say thank you, add one factual sentence about your role, and stop there. Let the contribution stand without downplaying it.AI Prompt (Copy-Paste Ready)Use this prompt to prepare for the next time someone praises your work. Paste it into your preferred AI assistant and answer the questions as they come.I am a [role] in [industry]. When someone praises my work, I tend to deflect the credit or downplay my part. Help me prepare a few ways to receive credit that are accurate and gracious, without bragging.Ask me 3 questions:What is a recent piece of work I was genuinely responsible for?What exactly was my role in it, and what am I tempted to say instead?Who do I most want to understand my actual contribution?Then write:Two or three responses I can use when someone praises my work, each stating my contribution as a fact first, then sharing credit if warranted.Constraints:State the contribution as fact, not inflationNo deflecting language like “it was nothing,” “I got lucky,” or “it was all the team”Keep it warm and gracious, not boastfulAvoid softening language like “just,” “a little,” “kind of,” or “I only”The lines should sound natural and self-assured when read out loudExample (output style)“Thank you. I led the strategy on that project, and I'm proud of how the team brought it to life.”Ready to Go Deeper?If you're ready to stop navigating your leadership growth alone, book a complimentary Leadership Strategy Call with Kele. Let us talk about where you are, where you want to go, and what it will take to get there.Book here: https://calendly.com/kele-thetailoredapproach/leadership-strategy-callAbout Your HostKele Belton is a communication and leadership trainer who specializes in helping women leaders develop confidence and impact through strategic communication and practical leadership frameworks.Connect with KeleLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kele-ruth-belton/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetailoredapproach/Website: https://thetailoredapproach.comBook a Leadership Strategy Call: https://calendly.com/kele-thetailoredapproach/leadership-strategy-call
In this episode we'll talk about:Why growth doesn't just require releasing what was bad — it requires releasing what was good but no longer fitsHow the version of you that's leaving quietly holds veto power over the version that's emergingWhy we mistake loyalty to our old identity for integrity — when it's actually resistance to becomingThe specific ways we ask permission from a self that has no authority to give itWhat it looks like to stop negotiating with the past version of yourselfWhat becomes possible when you finally give the emerging version full permission to arriveAnd more…START HERE…→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges.→ https://mattgottesman.substack.com/aboutNEW HERE…→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play.→ https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)CONNECT WITH ME…→ Instagram — @mattgottesman→ TikTok — @mattgottesman→ YouTube — @mattgottesmanRESOURCES…→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.comOTHER RELATED EPISODES:Faith Isn't Knowing the Whole Path… It's Taking the Next Honest StepApple: https://apple.co/3MB62IuSpotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
Your life is the sum of your choices. Not one decision.Not one moment.But the daily choices that quietly shape who you become. On this episode of Like It Matters Radio, Mr. Black reveals the five choices that ultimately define every life. They may seem ordinary, but together they determine your direction, your influence, and your legacy. The five choices are: How you spend your timeThe attitude you chooseWhat you focus onThe story you tell yourselfWhat you believe about God, yourself, and your purpose Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, Scripture, and leadership principles, Mr. Black explains why our minds are constantly filtering information through deletion, distortion, and generalization—and why the stories we repeat to ourselves eventually become the lives we live. This episode also explores: How your Reticular Activating System (RAS) shapes what you notice and pursueWhy beliefs at the identity level create lasting transformationThe Sovereignty Triangle found in Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, and Ephesians 2:10The difference between living for Survival, Success, or Significance Because success isn’t the highest goal. Significance is. It’s not about what you accumulate. It’s about who you build. It’s not about making a name for yourself. It’s about making a difference in the lives of others. This is an Hour of Power designed to help you examine the choices you’re making today—because today’s choices become tomorrow’s character, and tomorrow’s character becomes your legacy. The time is now. Choose wisely. Inspiration. Education. Application. When you live your life like it matters… it does.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Family Reunion That Proved My Healing Was Working with TraciEpisode SummaryHow do you know if your healing is actually working?It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.Instead of reacting, she paused.Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulationThe difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing themWhy self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment woundsHow learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-makingThe role of nervous system regulation in emotional healingWhy more information isn't always the answerHow perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourselfWhat it means to become "different in the same situation"The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunionHow healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotionsThe connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical healthWhy community and accountability accelerate transformationKey TakeawayHealing isn't about getting other people to change.It's about changing your relationship to yourself.When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.Resources MentionedFeelings & Needs ListRewiring Your Core Wound PatternsDate Your BodyHeal the Mother Wound8-Week Body Reset3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop http://jjflizanes.com/3stepsApply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJWebsite: jjflizanes.comIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.
The Family Reunion That Proved My Healing Was Working with TraciEpisode SummaryHow do you know if your healing is actually working?It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.Instead of reacting, she paused.Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulationThe difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing themWhy self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment woundsHow learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-makingThe role of nervous system regulation in emotional healingWhy more information isn't always the answerHow perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourselfWhat it means to become "different in the same situation"The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunionHow healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotionsThe connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical healthWhy community and accountability accelerate transformationKey TakeawayHealing isn't about getting other people to change.It's about changing your relationship to yourself.When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.Resources MentionedFeelings & Needs ListRewiring Your Core Wound PatternsDate Your BodyHeal the Mother Wound8-Week Body Reset3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop https://jjflizanes.com/3stepsApply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJWebsite: jjflizanes.comIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.
Alissa recently shared a post that said "please be too much," and it went viral, reaching over 2 million people after nearly two years of feeling like her work wasn't getting seen. But this episode isn't really about going viral. It's about what happened in those two quiet years before it, and why the willingness to show up anyway, even when you feel embarrassed, judged, or invisible, is what actually builds confidence and self-trust.For sensitive people, the fear of being seen trying runs deep. Alissa offers two words that changed her life: so what?She shares the stories behind it, from being mocked by people she went to high school with, to an email that hit her most painful insecurity square in the chest, to the six years of unseen work that led to her book deal with Penguin Random House. You don't wait until you feel healed and confident to start. You start, and that's what makes you confident.In this episode, you'll learn:Why "so what?" are two of the most freeing words when you're afraid of being judgedWhat showing up without applause does for your identity and self-trust over timeWhy waiting until you feel fully healed to take action is actually fear and control in disguiseHow saying you want something but never acting on it quietly erodes your trust in yourselfWhat it looks like to treat triggers as stepping stones instead of stop signsThe difference between responding from your sensitive shadow archetype and your sensitive strength archetypeUncover your sneaky internal belief that's stopping you from being your most confident self TAKE The FREE Shadow Archetype Quiz NOWLearn my 6-step process for managing & neutralizing your triggers as an HSP in our FREE UN-Botherable Workshop!Join the Not Too Sensitive Club
The Family Reunion That Proved My Healing Was Working with TraciEpisode SummaryHow do you know if your healing is actually working?It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.Instead of reacting, she paused.Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulationThe difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing themWhy self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment woundsHow learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-makingThe role of nervous system regulation in emotional healingWhy more information isn't always the answerHow perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourselfWhat it means to become "different in the same situation"The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunionHow healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotionsThe connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical healthWhy community and accountability accelerate transformationKey TakeawayHealing isn't about getting other people to change.It's about changing your relationship to yourself.When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.Resources MentionedFeelings & Needs ListRewiring Your Core Wound PatternsDate Your BodyHeal the Mother Wound8-Week Body Reset3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop https://jjflizanes.com/3stepsApply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJWebsite: jjflizanes.comIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.
The Family Reunion That Proved My Healing Was Working with TraciEpisode SummaryHow do you know if your healing is actually working?It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.Instead of reacting, she paused.Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulationThe difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing themWhy self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment woundsHow learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-makingThe role of nervous system regulation in emotional healingWhy more information isn't always the answerHow perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourselfWhat it means to become "different in the same situation"The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunionHow healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotionsThe connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical healthWhy community and accountability accelerate transformationKey TakeawayHealing isn't about getting other people to change.It's about changing your relationship to yourself.When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.Resources MentionedFeelings & Needs ListRewiring Your Core Wound PatternsDate Your BodyHeal the Mother Wound8-Week Body Reset3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop https://jjflizanes.com/3stepsApply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJWebsite: jjflizanes.comIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.
The Family Reunion That Proved My Healing Was Working with TraciEpisode SummaryHow do you know if your healing is actually working?It's not when you understand your wounds intellectually. It's not when you've read all the books, listened to all the podcasts, or can explain your patterns.Real healing is when you're different in the same situation.In this inspiring client spotlight episode, JJ sits down with Traci, a school social worker and longtime member of multiple JJ Flizanes programs, to discuss the profound shifts she's experienced through Rewiring Your Core Wound Patterns, Date Your Body, Heal the Mother Wound, and the 8-Week Body Reset.Traci shares how years of people-pleasing, self-abandonment, perfectionism, and nervous system dysregulation kept her stuck in cycles of reactivity and exhaustion. Through deep emotional healing work, she began identifying the root causes beneath her patterns and learning how to meet her own needs instead of waiting for others to change.The true test of her transformation came during a recent family reunion—a setting that had historically triggered old wounds, competition for attention, and emotional reactivity. This time, she discovered something powerful: she was different.Instead of reacting, she paused.Instead of seeking validation, she felt secure.Instead of viewing love as scarce, she realized love is multiplied, not divided.This conversation offers a real-life example of what emotional healing looks like in practice and how reclaiming self-trust, self-care, and inner safety can transform every area of life.What You'll Learn in This EpisodeHow Traci moved from chronic fight, flight, freeze, and fawn into greater peace and regulationThe difference between understanding your wounds and actually healing themWhy self-abandonment often hides beneath abandonment woundsHow learning to pause changed her relationships and decision-makingThe role of nervous system regulation in emotional healingWhy more information isn't always the answerHow perfectionism can keep you stuck and disconnected from yourselfWhat it means to become "different in the same situation"The surprising lesson Traci learned at a family reunionHow healing helped her stop taking responsibility for other people's emotionsThe connection between emotional healing, self-care, and physical healthWhy community and accountability accelerate transformationKey TakeawayHealing isn't about getting other people to change.It's about changing your relationship to yourself.When you learn to trust your inner guidance, meet your own needs, and stop abandoning yourself, the situations that once triggered you begin to lose their power. The people around you may not change—but your experience of them does.As Traci beautifully shares, healing helped her realize that love is not a limited resource, that she is worthy exactly as she is, and that peace becomes available when she stops chasing approval and starts turning inward.Resources MentionedFeelings & Needs ListRewiring Your Core Wound PatternsDate Your BodyHeal the Mother Wound8-Week Body Reset3 Steps to Emotional Freedom Workshop https://jjflizanes.com/3steps Apply for Coaching: jjflizanes.com/applyConnect with JJWebsite: jjflizanes.comIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is tired of coping and ready to create real, lasting change. Healing happens when you become different in the same situation—and that transformation is possible for you too.
What happens when you're building something that looks right but feels completely wrong?In this episode of The Higher Self, Danny Morel gets radically honest about why he walked away from the traditional podcast format — the interviews, the cameras, the performance — and what it cost him to finally stop forcing it. This is the story behind the new season, told in Danny's most unfiltered voice yet.But this episode isn't just about a podcast. It's about the moment every person faces when they know what they're supposed to do — and still can't step into it. When you're close to your power but something keeps holding you back. When life keeps sending you mirrors showing you exactly where you're still disconnected from your authentic truth.In this episode you'll learn:Why performing for others keeps you from ever being truly seenHow the people and situations that use you are actually mirrors you called in yourselfWhat it really means to ask God to bring you back to your power — and what happens nextHow to stop living from fear and finally show up as who you actually areReady to go deeper in person? Join Danny at Awaken and experience this transformation live.
We need to talk about what you actually believe about love. Not what you think you believe, what's quietly running the show underneath all of it. Because I've watched so many women do the work, read the books, listen to all the podcasts (maybe even this one), and still stay stuck. And a lot of the time? It comes down to the beliefs they've never once questioned.After a decade of doing this work, coaching hundreds of women, and being in my own healthy marriage, I'm sharing the five relationship beliefs I'm doubling down on, even the ones that are going to make some of you want to unfollow me. I'm okay with that.Inside this episode:Why your soulmate doesn't exist yet and why that's actually the best news you've ever heardThe real reason codependency is repelling the love you want (and what's magnetic instead)Why closure is a lie you've been telling yourself and how to finally give it to yourselfWhat monogamy and the spark actually have in common — and why you're probably blaming the wrong thingThe cultural narrative about men that I think is quietly working against your healingSome of these will land. Some might sting a little. All of them are things I wish someone had said to me years ago, before I spent way too long holding onto beliefs that were keeping me stuck in the same painful patterns.Come with an open mind and let's get into it.
Everyone's talking about Voicemails for Isabelle as a love story but I believe the real reason it's resonating so deeply has nothing to do with romance.In this episode, we're exploring the deeper spiritual message behind the film: emotional safety.Together, we'll unpack why so many women have been conditioned to mistake intensity for love, how our nervous systems shape the relationships we attract, and why true healing begins when we stop chasing chaos and start choosing peace.Whether you've seen the movie or not, this conversation is an invitation to reflect on the kind of love you're creating in your own life... starting with the relationship you have with yourself.We'll explore:Why emotional safety is more transformative than chemistryHow childhood patterns can influence the partners we chooseThe difference between healing and fixing yourselfWhat it means to embody feminine energy rooted in peace, presence, and self-trustWhy your spiritual journey is really about remembering who you are—not becoming someone elseIf you're ready to move beyond survival mode and create a life grounded in alignment, self-worth, and authentic connection, this episode is for you.✨ If this conversation speaks to your heart, I'd love to invite you to continue the journey with me inside one of my transformational retreats or my mastermind community. You'll find all the details in the show notes or DM me on Instagram. Resources from today's episode Work with PhiLearn more about 1:1 Coaching with Phi here.Apply for 1:1 Coaching with Phi here.Book a Human Design Reading with Phi here.Phi's book; The Great Unlearning: Awakening to Living an Aligned and Authentic Life.Message Phi on InstagramEmail PhiPlay Retreat Sri Lanka November 2026Join The Monthly Reset (my free online personal growth community)
In this episode we'll talk about:Why fruit is not what most people think it isWhat scripture actually means when it talks about the fruit of the SpiritHow real fruit shows up in someone's daily behavior — not their public presentationWhy fruit cannot be performed... only livedHow recognizing fruit in others requires cultivating it in yourselfWhat your spirit knows about someone long before your mind can explain itAnd more… START HERE…→ Join The Niche Is You® — my Substack (20K+) — Weekly essays, the full workshop library, the private community + the Quarterly Challenges. → https://mattgottesman.substack.com/aboutNEW HERE…→ 6 Days to Clarity Workshop — clarity for your time, energy, money, creativity, work & play. → https://mattgottesman.com/reverse-engineer-your-life (FREE)CONNECT WITH ME…→ Instagram — @mattgottesman→ TikTok — @mattgottesman→ YouTube — @mattgottesmanRESOURCES…→ Write • Design • Build — my Content Creator Studio & OS masterclass (Included when you join my Substack) — Growing the niche of you, your audience, reach, voice, passion & income — CLICK HERE→ Recommended Book List — CLICK HERE→ Apparel — thenicheisyou.comOTHER RELATED EPISODES:Faith Isn't Knowing the Whole Path… It's Taking the Next Honest StepApple: https://apple.co/3MB62IuSpotify: https://bit.ly/4rZw3RN
"I was afraid coaching would reveal the real blocker was me."Most founders never say that out loud, but Natalia Scheidegger had the courage to face that and overcome it.Natalia's business was growing and she was hitting milestones, but she sensed she was capable of more, and decided to find out.This episode is about what it takes to close the gap between the founder you are and the one your business needs you to become to achieve your dreams.Topics Covered:Why the narrative "I'm being held back by X" is almost always a lie you're telling yourselfWhat it actually costs to keep hiding behind hope instead of demanding an answer from yourselfThe weekly accountability structure that makes the difference between good intentions and real changeConnect with Natalia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-scheidegger/*Get the "Elite Performance" book at https://itamarmarani.com/book/If you're ready to get unstuck and take both yourself and your business to the next level, apply to The Arena here: https://itamarmarani.com/applyGet the Extreme Clarity Tool To Uncover The #1 Action To Grow Your Business: https://itamarmarani.com/claritySign up for “3 Quick Ideas Tuesday” (weekly 2 minute newsletter around mindset and emotional fortitude): https://itamarmarani.com/3-ideas/
Ever compared yourself to someone else? This episode is for you. In this episode Kayla breaks down why we compare ourselves to others on a biological level & how to prove comparison untrue. Kayla gives you details on how staying in comparison can create physical symptoms on the body, and can keep you further and further from your true Soul's calling. But what if we flip that and use it as power?Today you'll hear tangible tips on how to actually stop the comparison loop as well as:Energetic laws that show us how special we areTools to upgrade your internal self image & feelings about yourselfWhat would happen in you actually had other people's livesHow to stop giving away your own Soul's purpose & energy to other people's circumstancesWays to boost your self image, self love, energetic field, and soul path And so much more… For even more advanced work: Get instant access to our most recent free webinar: hereJoin The Monthly Membership Community: hereApply to work 1:1 with Kayla: here
If the number on the scale has been your primary way of knowing whether things are going well with food, this episode is for you. A conversation with a new client, who is literally a scientist, sparked something I knew I had to bring to the podcast.You can be making real progress, feeling calmer around food, binging less, feeling more connected, and still find yourself on the scale waiting for the number to confirm what you're already experiencing. And when it doesn't? All that real progress disappears.In this episode, I talk about why the scale is measuring the wrong thing entirely, what it actually means to track success in your relationship with food, and what I've seen in my own experience when a number became the thing I was chasing.What You'll Discover:Why chasing a number keeps you in monitoring mode rather than in connection with yourselfWhat the scale can't measure and why that data matters more than the numberMy own experience with using the scale as a measure of control, and what I can see now that I couldn't thenWhat to do with the scale if you're not ready to put it away entirelyIf you've ever felt like you were making progress, only to have the scale talk you out of it, this episode will give you a different way to measure what's actually happening.If you want to know what it would look like to explore this with support, schedule a Breakthrough Call today.Want to know why you struggle with food and what to do next? Start watching The Binge Breakthrough Mini Series today.
Well Sh*t. It really is that simple - Episode 209 - "How you can microdose supportive discomfort to build your capacity for it" is now LIVE!Full Show notes: https://bit.ly/WellShitEpisodeGuideMost of us do not like being uncomfortable and will do whatever we can to avoid it. What if we told you the path to comfort often lies in being uncomfortable. Tune in to today's episode where we discuss how to build our capacity for supportive discomfort and find out how microdosing discomfort can actually help us to create more of what we want in life.In this episode we cover:The seasons are changing...ours not the weatherThe comfort we want to be focusing on and whyWhat we mean when we say microdose discomfortIdentifying the needs that are up when we are uncomfortableHow we can begin microdosing discomfortMicrodosing discomfort in your relationshipsChoosing the right people to microdose withClearing niggles with others and yourselfWhat to consider before microdosing discomfortAcknowledging the discomfortComing out on the other side of microdosing discomfortThe role our nervous system plays in microdosingWhen we're on the receiving end of the uncomfortable conversationEpisode References:The episode on supportive discomfort - Episode 188 - What is supportive discomfort?The episode on unsupportive discomfort - Episode 189 - Why it's not always helpful to get comfortable with being uncomfortableThe clearing niggles episode - Episode 61 - Friendship Series: Clearing NigglesThe shoulda, woulda, coulda episode - Episode 208 - Shoulda, woulda, coulda down the shame spiralThe gremlin episode - Episode 199 - Do you have an inner Gremlin? Are you feeding it without realizing?The episode about the relationship orbits - Episode 17 - Apology Series: What to do when you're waiting for an apology that will never comePodcast Episode guide and full show notes: https://bit.ly/WellShitEpisodeGuideFind our website and connect with us on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/theuniversalneeds Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Mensimah's Round Table: Conversations with Women of Power and Grace
There are seasons in life when everything feels like too much—but what if that pressure isn't here to break you?In this episode of The Round Table, we explore the quiet but powerful truth that overwhelm is often a signal for change. Through personal reflection and honest conversation, we unpack what it really means to “choose yourself”—not in a dramatic, life-altering way, but in the small, everyday moments that shape your life.In This Episode, We Explore:Why feeling overwhelmed may actually be a sign of growthThe moment you realize no one is coming to rescue you—and why that's empoweringHow choosing yourself begins in small, almost invisible decisionsThe subtle signs you're ready for a new chapterHow your relationships shift when you stop abandoning yourselfWhat it means to move from pressure into clarity and personal power.A Moment to Reflect:Where in your life are you still holding everything together… at the cost of yourself?Guided Practice Included:A short heart-centered meditation to reconnect with your inner power and release pressure.Mantra from This Episode:I am a woman of power and grace.If This Resonated:This conversation is an invitation to look at pressure differently—not as something to escape, but as something that might be guiding you back to yourself.Share this episode with someone who may be quietly carrying too much. You're not alone in this—and neither are they.Dr. Mensimah ShabazzJoin us in empowering one million women worldwide to embrace their strength and grace. Together, let's declare our identities as women of power and inspire one another to shine! ♥️Want to go deeper?I offer 1:1 transformational coaching, sacred space-holding, and intuitive mentorship for women ready to embody their highest path. Schedule a 30-minute consultation: https://www.mensimah.com/harmony-consult or send Email to: agapect@mensimah.com.Subscribe: Join our Reflective/Inner Work Platform "Compose A New Narrative" at: https:www.patreon.com/mensimahshabazzphd orhttps://substack.com/@drmensimahshabazzContact Links:Website: https://www.mensimah.comInstagram: @mensimahshabazzphdYouTube: @mensimahsroundtableShop: https://shop.mensimah.comRegister as a Guest on PodMatch- for Round Table Conversations: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/mrtDonations:https://mensimahs-round-table.captiva...https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/MRTPo...
In episode 352 of Beyond Limits, Liv sits down with Danielle Amos—The Mystic Millionaire Mentor and protégé of Bob Proctor—to unpack the real reason your income isn't expanding… even when you're doing all the “right” things.Danielle Amos is a transformational teacher and guide for ambitious, high-performing women ready to unlock their full potential and achieve extraordinary success. She blends timeless wisdom, energetic mastery, and mindset science to help women shift from feeling stuck and overwhelmed… to embodying abundance and confidently pursuing their highest goals.Her work bridges the mystical and the practical, where spirituality meets self-image, and alignment becomes the foundation for lasting wealth, purpose, and power.Inside this episode:⚡ Why your income is a direct reflection of your self-imageThe shift from external blame to radical responsibility—and how it changes everything
In this episode of the Unbound Writer's Club, Nicola's in conversation with author Kate Mayor. Join them as they discuss Kate's recently released book, All the Parts it Takes – a novel about “a woman who's been driving forward for so long, she's lost connection to herself”. It's the story of “what happens when a woman stops performing her own life and starts, slowly, to choose it”.In this Episode:What in particular makes Kate an unbound writer?Writing from a place that feels really trueHow did Kate get started writing her book in the first place?You don't have to have all the answersGiving yourself permission to get startedExpressing the creative side of yourselfWhat has Kate liberated herself from?There are a million ways to write a novel – you can invent your ownWhat was the process like as Kate's story came through and evolved?Not forcing the process, and giving your book spaceWhat surprised Kate along the way as the story came through?The books we write become medicine for usWhat fears or doubts came up for Kate, and how did she move through them?How did Kate find the audiobook process?Did Kate consider writing a non-fiction book?What advice would Kate give someone with an idea bubbling?Links:Interested in becoming an author with us at The Unbound Press? To access our info pack, click here.Ready to write, finish + publish your book? Come join the Unbound Writer's Collective - our vibrant community + membership for soul-led writers.Access Nicola's free guide - The 3 Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Wrote my Most Transformational Book here.Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.Connect with Kate Mayor on her website or LinkedIn.Purchase Kate's book here or via the usual outlets.Music Credit: Joseph McDade.We'd love you to share this episode with your friends, community and anyone you think would enjoy it.
Have you ever made the decision…you know you're not going back…and yet your body still reacts like you're in danger?That moment—when your mind is clear but your body isn't—is where so many high-achieving women start to question themselves.In this episode, we break down why your nervous system hasn't caught up to the decision you've already made and how this has nothing to do with weakness, confusion, or being “stuck.”You'll learn:Why your body still reacts after you've chosen yourselfWhat a conditioned nervous system response actually isThe hidden pattern that keeps pulling you back into old dynamicsA simple somatic practice to interrupt the pattern in real timeHow self-trust is rebuilt through the body—not just mindsetThis isn't about forcing yourself to “move on” or think differently.It's about understanding what your body is doing… and learning how to meet yourself there.Because when you understand this, everything shifts.✨ The Rewire Moment:Your body isn't betraying you.It's running a program that once kept you safe—and you're now in the process of rewriting it.If this resonates and you're ready to go deeper, I invite you to explore my Self-Loyalty Mentorship—a high-touch experience where I support you through this exact process of rewiring your nervous system and rebuilding self-trust from within.
Send us Fan MailIn this week's episode 350 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I'm joined by guest Art Blanchford to explore the journey from workaholism and people-pleasing into recovery, purpose, and spiritual alignment.Art shares his experience as a high-achieving corporate executive who spent decades in constant motion—running multi-billion dollar companies and staying in a cycle of overwork. When the pandemic forced everything to stop, it exposed what was really going on underneath. Through Workaholics Anonymous, he began learning how to let go of control and reconnect with himself.Some of the talking points we go over in this episode include:How workaholism can be socially rewarded while quietly disconnecting you from yourselfWhat happens when constant busyness stops and you're left with what's underneathWhat recovery in Workaholics Anonymous looks like and why many people don't recognize this patternThe shift from people-pleasing into a life guided by purpose and spiritualityWhat it really means to “let go and let God” in a practical wayThis conversation is a reminder that recovery isn't just about changing behavior—it's about reconnecting to yourself and creating a life that feels aligned instead of driven.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Fragmented to Whole at https://higherpowercc.com/podcast/Feeling drained? Take my free Boundaries Drain Quiz to find out where your energy is leaking and how to reclaim it. Start your quiz here: https://higherpowercc.com/drain/CONNECT WITH BARB NANGLE:Subscribe to “Friday Fragments” weekly newsletterLinkedinWork with Barb! Book a “Say No Without Guilt” Session
Send us Fan MailIn this week's episode 350 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I'm joined by guest Art Blanchford to explore the journey from workaholism and people-pleasing into recovery, purpose, and spiritual alignment.Art shares his experience as a high-achieving corporate executive who spent decades in constant motion—running multi-billion dollar companies and staying in a cycle of overwork. When the pandemic forced everything to stop, it exposed what was really going on underneath. Through Workaholics Anonymous, he began learning how to let go of control and reconnect with himself.Some of the talking points we go over in this episode include:How workaholism can be socially rewarded while quietly disconnecting you from yourselfWhat happens when constant busyness stops and you're left with what's underneathWhat recovery in Workaholics Anonymous looks like and why many people don't recognize this patternThe shift from people-pleasing into a life guided by purpose and spiritualityWhat it really means to “let go and let God” in a practical wayThis conversation is a reminder that recovery isn't just about changing behavior—it's about reconnecting to yourself and creating a life that feels aligned instead of driven.Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.Thank you for listening! If you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot of the episode to post in your stories and tag me! And don't forget to follow, rate and review the podcast and tell me your key takeaways!Learn more about Fragmented to Whole at https://higherpowercc.com/podcast/Feeling drained? Take my free Boundaries Drain Quiz to find out where your energy is leaking and how to reclaim it. Start your quiz here: https://higherpowercc.com/drain/CONNECT WITH BARB NANGLE:Subscribe to “Friday Fragments” weekly newsletterLinkedinWork with Barb! Book a “Say No Without Guilt” Session
Send us Fan MailNathalie and Amanda go beneath the speaker and the frameworks to the private, unscripted territory of grief. In this episode, we coverWhat it costs to hold it together when falling apart isn't an optionThe parts of the story that resist being turned into a growth toolThe difference between resilience as armour and resilience as a path back to yourselfWhat genuine support actually looks like in the darkest hoursWhere grief still lives in the body today, and how to tend to itAbout our guestAmanda Anderson is a keynote speaker, trauma survivor, and mental health advocate with over 17 years of experience working in NLP, resilience, and real-world mental health. Her credentials are not academic — they are lived. Her brother was murdered. Her sister and father died of terminal illness. She survived a stroke, divorce, and sustained frontline trauma exposure. From that wreckage, she built a body of work that helps high-functioning, resilient people, the ones who have always been "the strong one", stop merely surviving and consciously rebuild something fierce and true.Her work sits at the intersection of trauma, grief, and identity. Through keynotes and writing, she gives language to the experiences people have been carrying silently for years. She doesn't offer surface-level motivation. She offers permission to stop pretending you were never hurt, and to choose, deliberately, what you build next.Resources mentionedwww.amanda-anderson.com.aulinkedin.com/in/amandakandersonSupport the show
Awaken & Manifest Your Best Life: A Spiritual Awakening Podcast
JOIN THE MIND-BODY RITUAL CHALLENGE NOW: https://www.theawakenedstate.net/challenge/Have you ever wondered what life actually feels like on the other side of the work? Not the Pinterest-quote version — the real, lived, body-level experience of being regulated, trusting your intuition, and finally having a spiritual practice that holds?In the final episode of the Reconnect Live Series, we bring it all the way home.We spent Day 1 naming the disconnection and understanding why so many spiritually aware women feel dysregulated, scattered, and stuck in survival mode. Day 2 we explored what your body, soul, and mind are actually asking for — and why most practices fail because they only speak to one of those layers.Today is the return.In this episode we cover:What your life actually looks and feels like after 30 to 60 days of consistent nervous system regulation — the real shifts, not the highlight reelHow a strengthened intuition changes your daily decisions, your relationships, and your relationship with yourselfWhat focused intention does to your mind — and why it's the piece that finally makes your spiritual goals feel achievable instead of aspirationalThe real reasons you've been inconsistent with your practice — and why it has nothing to do with discipline or commitmentThe most common emotional and mental roadblocks that keep spiritually aware women stuck in the starting-over cycleWhat it means to truly commit to a spiritual practice — and what becomes possible when you doWhy an accountability-based challenge environment accelerates transformation faster than going it aloneEverything inside the Mind-Body Ritual Challenge — and why the structure, community, and daily ritual practice work together to create lasting changeThis episode is for the woman who knows something needs to shift. Who has started over enough times to stop trusting herself. Who can feel that a more regulated, intuitive, spiritually grounded version of her is possible — but hasn't found the container that makes it stick yet.That container exists. And this episode is your introduction to it.The Mind-Body Ritual Challenge is open April 25th through May 1st — 30 days of daily body, soul, and mindset rituals with accountability, community, and coaching support to help you build the practice that finally holds.Join at https://www.theawakenedstate.net/challenge/ before the door closes May 1st.
Hey Diabuddy thank you for listening to show, send me some positive vibes with your favorite part of this episode.In this episode, Coach Ken sits down with Lisa Katzenberger to explore what it really looks like to rebuild trust as a T1D parent. Lisa shares her personal journey navigating the emotional challenges that come with being a diabetes caregiver, and her perspective of navigating motherhood to a T1D child. Lisa is also an author and shares her journey in telling the story of how insulin was created - It Belongs to the World: Frederick Banting and the Discovery of Insulin.
If you've ever thought, “Why can I not get my life together when it comes to time?”—you are absolutely not alone.This conversation felt like such a breath of fresh air because we're not talking about rigid schedules, perfect planners, or waking up at 5am (thank goodness). Instead, we're digging into what actually works for real moms with real lives… you know, the kind where kids interrupt everything and plans fall apart before lunch.I had so much fun hearing about Anna's real-life experiences in the professional world, SO different than my life, and wait until you hear what we both have in common when it comes to being POOR at time management! I couldn't believe her confession about getting in trouble at work for a time-related issue…What I love most is that Anna brings so much grace and practicality to this topic. She doesn't expect perfection; and honestly, that might be the most freeing part of all.In this episode, you'll learn:Why time management isn't really about your planner (and what actually matters instead)A simple “mind sweep” method to instantly reduce overwhelm and clear your mental clutterHow to figure out what actually deserves your time (and what you can let go of)Practical ways to involve your kids so you're not doing everything yourselfWhat to do when your plans fall apart (because… they will)A simple framework to handle those chaotic, stressful moments without spiralingIf you've been feeling scattered, behind, or just plain overwhelmed, this episode is going to meet you right where you are, and give you a few doable steps to move forward.Resources We Mention for Time Management for MomsGet Anna's Blueprint to Balance hereBuy Anna's book, Time Management Essentials: The Tools You Need to Maximize Your Attention, Energy, and Productivity on Amazon or Bookshop.orgWhen we talk about being an “upholder” or a “rebel,” that's from Gretchen Rubin's book The Four Tendencies.Learn more from my interview with Megan Sumrell about managing your time, and check out her TOP program for a free training on getting your life together!Check out the cookbook FOR kids, BY kids at kidscookrealfood.com/chefjr. Get four free life skills workshops now at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/skillsKitchen StewardshipRaising Healthy Families follow Katie on Instagram or FacebookSubscribe to the newsletter to get weekly updatesYouTube shorts channel for HPHFind the Healthy Parenting Handbook at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/podcastAffiliate links used here. Thanks for supporting the Healthy Parenting Handbook!
In this episode of the Tactical Living Podcast, hosts Coach Ashlie Walton and Sergeant Clint Walton talk about a coping tool deeply woven into first responder culture: dark humor (Amazon Affiliate). For years, it creates connection, diffuses tension, and helps process the unthinkable. But what happens when it stops working? This episode explores the moment when laughter no longer relieves pressure, jokes feel hollow, and the emotional weight underneath begins to surface. It's not a failure of resilience—it's often a sign your nervous system is ready for a different level of processing and healing.
In this powerful episode of the Mothers Who Know Podcast, hosted by Karen Broadhead, we explore how to stay grounded in truth, reclaim your personal strength, and find lasting joy—even in life's most difficult transitions. When life feels overwhelming, uncertain, or emotionally heavy, it's easy to get stuck in fear, shame, or self-doubt. But what if those moments are actually opportunities to grow stronger, think differently, and reconnect with what matters most?In this episode, you'll learn:How to navigate emotional and life transitions without losing yourselfWhat it means to “stay by the tree” and stay rooted in truth and hopeHow thoughts influence feelings—and how to break negative mental cyclesThe concept of “owning your field” and taking back personal responsibility with peace, not pressureHow to let go of control and lean into grace, agency, and growthThis episode is especially for mothers supporting children through challenges like anxiety, depression, or other difficult behaviors—and who want to show up with strength, clarity, and love.Mothers Who Know is a community where women support one another in overcoming challenges, strengthening families, and living with purpose. The podcast reflects principles of faith, personal growth, and intentional living.
Early-stage multifamily investing feels productive—analyzing deals, studying markets, talking to brokers—but none of that replaces income. In this Multifamily Brief, Brian breaks down the exact path he would follow if he had to start over from zero, including what he would stop doing immediately and where he would focus instead. If you're serious about building real momentum—not just consuming content—the deeper conversations happen inside the Tribe of Titans multifamily investing community, where investors work through real deals together with live discussion and direct support. Learn more at thetribeoftitans.com. What You'll Learn In this episode, Brian challenges several assumptions that quietly stall aspiring investors, including:Why chasing “passive income” early creates false expectationsThe hidden cost of trying to do everything yourselfWhat actually replaces income before cash flow ever doesWhy capital is the constraint—even for experienced operatorsHow momentum is built before credibility feels earned Drawing from his own experience replacing his income in three years while working a full-time job—and raising capital across multiple deals—Brian explains why focusing on capital first creates leverage that everything else depends on. He also shares how shifting this focus earlier would have materially changed his trajectory. About the Host:Brian Briscoe is an apartment investor, operator, and founder of Streamline Capital, focused on acquiring and operating multifamily properties in the greater Salt Lake City metro. He hosts the Diary of an Apartment Investor podcast, where he shares operator-level insights and real-world decision frameworks for aspiring multifamily investors.If this Multifamily Brief helped you think differently, there's a lot more where that came from. Inside the Tribe of Titans, we go deeper on these same topics every week, applying them to real deals and answering questions live. If you're serious about building momentum instead of just consuming content, that's where you belong. Visit thetribeoftitans.com to learn more.****Capital Raising Course Starting on February 5****Learn more and register at www.thetribeoftitans.netMeet weekly with Brian over a 10-week period to learn how to consistently raise millions!!(Thursdays, 7pm Mountain Time)
What happens when God interrupts the dream you worked your whole life to build?In this episode of the Dad Tired Podcast, Jerrad sits down with country music songwriter and artist Drew Parker for one of the most honest conversations we've ever had.Drew shares his journey from writing number one songs, touring stadiums, and chasing success—to realizing he was spiritually immature, driven by insecurity, and living for approval. Then came a prayer asking God to be unmistakably clear… and five days later, an answer he couldn't ignore.Together, we talk about:The quiet lie that drives many menFame, insecurity, and the need to prove yourselfWhat spiritual immaturity looks like in grown menWhy men are afraid to be fully knownFatherhood, obedience, and legacyWhat changes when a man finally takes God seriouslyThis episode is for the man who loves Jesus—but knows something deeper is missing.Strong families begin with healed men.Today's Sponsor: KidsGoBible.com