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In Part 3 of our series on feeling Alive, we explore the second of the three A's: Acceptance. Hope you enjoy this one! Zoom Summary: The Three A’s to Feeling Alive Kay discussed the second installment of a series focusing on the three A’s to feel alive, following awareness with acceptance. Kay emphasized the importance of personalization in learning, encouraging participants to engage with the con...

A quick announcement!! See more here: https://kaylockkolp.com/events Summary (via Zoom :) Maine Camp Retreat Invitation Kay announced an invitation to join a main camp retreat in September, describing it as a combination of camp and retreat experience designed to help people connect with friends and find restoration. She shared personal experiences about how camp had positively impacted her life d...

Today, we’re focusing in on one of the 3 A’s that are helpful in feeling alive, Awareness. Hope you enjoy this one! Find the diagram here if for example you are in your favorite podcast app, and it doesn’t support images. Thanks for being here. See you for part three next week! Kay Nuts & Bolts In-Person Retreat! Stay tuned for more info on the epic Fall Frolic (so-named by one potential retreat-g...

We are starting something new today, a series on feeling alive! Today's question: What makes you feel alive? I'll see you next week for the next part of our series. Here is the very fun Venn diagram that I reference today: Find it here if for example you are in your favorite podcast app, and it doesn't support images. Thanks for being here. See you for part two next week! Kay Nuts & Bolts Dreamers...

What an interesting podcasting experiment, to return to the same subject matter once each month and see what shows up. I see progress with strengthening my muscles of staying with what's aligned, and of remembering that I can give my body feelings of safety and love, no matter the environment that I find myself in. Also - I am hosting an in-person retreat on a beautiful lake here in Maine in Septe...

This conversation reset my perspective in a most helpful way. Today's guest, Historian Alnoor Dhanani, shares about human curiosity and ingenuity over millennia, and all across the globe. One of my favorite things about the conversation is how he speaks of ancient times in the present tense. I hope you enjoy this uplifting and elevating conversation is much as I did. Nuts & Bolts Questions and Tho...

My Brain & Me Workshop : I am co-facilitating a Roundtable along with today's guest! She is wonderful coach and very dear colleague Sarah Juniper , and our roundtable is about making peace with our internal operating system. This feels important now, more than ever. Click here to read more about the Roundtable, taking place on Saturday 28 February. Welcome to a conversation that I hope you really...

Here we are at the finale to this series on Cultivating a Positive Money Mindset! Today we bring the ideas we’ve been discussing together and I share two tiny steps that you can take – and keep taking over time – that are super helpful in cultivating this mindset. So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journal, grab a cup of tea and your favorite blanket, and let’s hop in! Impor...

If you’d like to feel some hope and know that you are among people who, like ourselves, are searching for solutions that support everyone, this is your conversation. Ashland, Massachusetts Chief of Police Cara Rossi spent a wonderful hour talking with me today, and I'm so excited to bring you our conversation. Shared with lots of gratitude to Cara – and to you for listening and for sharing your qu...

This one's a little messy. Not a surprise, given how messy January has been. I wanted to bring it to you even though it's messy, because it's real too. It's about real things that really matter. You're here, reading and listening, so I think they’ll matter to you as well. Thank you for being here with me. I'm glad to be here with you. Love, Kay Nuts & Bolts Got a question for this coming Tuesday's...

Today’s show brings in an important idea when cultivating a positive money mindset: being curious about what we are really good at and enjoy doing. How we feel about money will improve as we do more and more of that which we are really good at and enjoy doing. Hope you enjoy this one! I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the most important person who will hear your responses to th...

How we spend our time, and how aligned our days are spent with how we wish to spend them, is directly influenced by the kind of money mindset we have. Today I’ve got a couple questions to help you get a sense of this alignment for yourself. I keep bringing this up, because it keeps being true: the key person who will hear you, is you. So open up the notes app on your phone or find yourself a journ...

I HAD NO IDEA how negative my money mindset used to be. Lack was the word that best describes it. Over several years I’ve opened more and more to feeling abundance. Even with all that growth, 2025 blew the absolute doors off of any abundance mindset I’d ever had. Between the dream home and property my life partner and I now live on, and the up-leveling of service that I have been able to provide w...

Happy new year! For this episode I share three questions that have been super helpful for me in envisioning a wonderful 2026. I share my responses to them… With such curiosity about you. I wonder how you would answer these questions? Here are the questions: 1. A Magical Three from this year’s Year Compass : “I will have the power to say no to these three things.”… What are your three things? 2. &...

Well, here we are at the end of a fascinating and pretty buckwild year! I have got a quickie self-care practice for you today, and a game that we can play together all throughout 2026. (The link below is where you can play.) Happy 2026, dear friend. I hope it's an awesome year for you. You deserve it. And you rock! Love, Kay This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscr...

On 23 December 2022 I sustained a head injury that took me many many months to recover from. I spent half the following year in physical therapy supporting my eyes to work properly again. The head injury permanently changed how I engage with print and reading. It had one other, very beneficial, effect: at the hospital I was told “You need lots of rest. If you want to get truly better from this you...

Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us … To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves. This week we bring our focus to feeling okay even amidst those who do not. Hope it's helpful. Sending you love today

This game came in really handy when my eardrum ruptured over Thanksgiving week! It was great to have a little reminder that even on the worst days, there's still good around when we look for it. THANK YOU to my dear friend and colleague Dr. Alice Ackerman for the game. Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us … To take into our...

Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us , if I’m being honest… To take into our days and say “I love you lots!” to ourselves. In this one, we’re seeing how it feels to celebrate a creative win. Sending you love today

Hello fellow fun seeker! Today and for the rest of the year, I am offering out one tiny little micro practice each week for you… for us , if I'm being honest… To take into our days and say "I love you lots!” to ourselves. In this one, we’re practicing a simple noticing: what do I need right now? If possible, we're giving it to ourselves. Sending you love today

There are a couple F bombs! So maybe headphones or listening away from sensitive ears are good choices for this episode today. I love when it happens that stories that I hadn’t really been intending to share just present themselves as what feels right to say in the moment. It turns out that taking you into my art means taking you into my LIFE over this last year-ish, a time of disruption, growth,...

Greetings friend! I'm geeking out a little bit today on something that's been both a passion of mine and my professional work for more than three decades: human dynamics, the study of how humans interact with each other. We human beings are fascinating creatures. We can seem very unpredictable to someone who’s not inside ourselves. We can even seem unpredictable to ourselves at times. Over the las...

Greetings friend! I'm just back from a transformative and restorative retreat in northern Spain where I got some essential solo exploration time and also took part in a lovely and amazing group retreat offered by friend-of-the-podcast Monique Giroux ( here's her website so you can get to know her better!) and spent with some truly amazing women. Today's episode is about an important part of my lea...

Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, I Am Not My Thoughts . We hope that this will be a super helpful episode for you on your journey. Enjoy! * Would you like to be part of our final Tools Chat coming up in November 2025? Email...

Greetings! Today’s is another in this series of “lost” Tools Chats recorded with my friend and colleague Andrew Moss . It’s about an important tool on my journey that I still find extremely helpful even today, The Law of the Universe . A note for paid supporters: with my travel this past month I have drafted, but not yet finished, the chapter of my forthcoming book that should have been yours in O...