Ownit! Powercast

Welcome to Episode 188 where we listen in to bits of top five most listened to episodes about assertiveness. In this episode we will be getting on my absolute soapbox – and that is the concept of assertiveness.  Over many years of studying, teaching, learning, and doing my own work around personal growth, I believe we cannot have good self-esteem if we cannot own our voice.  We cannot feel empower...

Welcome to Episode 187 where we will be getting into one of the more popular categories of boundaries and listening in on the five most downloaded episodes. In this episode we listen in on the top five boundaries episodes and how important boundaries are for confidence, healthy separateness in relationships, and for creating change.  Know that boundaries is a huge concept with so many layers and f...

Welcome to Episode 186 where we highlight the top four favorite episodes about getting needs met.  In this episode we talk about how we can certainly underestimate the importance of getting our needs met in healthy ways, especially the emotional and psychological ones. We talk about why it matters to define them, own them and figure out healthier ways to get them met, because not taking ownership...

Welcome to Episode 185 where we highlight the top five most-listened to episodes about self-confidence. In this episode we focus on what YOU the listeners have voted as the most popular episodes that have focused on self-confidence, which is such a big part of empowerment.  I realize that some of these episodes are the earlier ones and have been left off of some of the listening platforms.  Know t...

Welcome to Episode 184 where we finish out the month and the year wrapping up some big areas of change we have been talking about. In this episode we finish out the year talking about radical self-care, where we identify a few things in the areas of boundaries, healing, in daily self-care that can help us take charge of our life and really start changing things. We explore how owning our choices i...

Welcome to Episode 183 where we talk about how trauma comes in different forms and levels of severity, and how important it is to work toward healing so that we can feel more grounded, glued together and have more peace in our lives.  In this episode we define the different types of trauma, its effects on us, and ways to begin healing.   As many people either think about or engage with more family...

Welcome to Episode 182 where we focus on the interconnected Boundary/Detachment/Grief work we either are doing or need to do so we can heal and come to acceptance of the realities of our life.  In this episode process the concepts of how griefwork, detachment and boundaries work together like three legs of a stool to help us sit with, face, and feel what is and has been true for us, and what we ne...

EP181 Finding Hope and Peace Where You Can Welcome to Episode 181 where we focus on ways you can find some hope and peace no matter what is going on or where we are.  It is also a great time of year to look back on all that's happened and all you have accomplished in your work, as well as where you want to go next year. In this episode we SO today we start a new month all about self-focus, reflect...

Welcome to Episode 180 where we wrap up the month about assertiveness by getting down to what it takes to actually practice! In this episode we finish up the month talking all about the necessary components for assertiveness and examples of what this looks like, from setting boundaries, to shushing your inner critic and looking at how NOT to react emotionally. Just by making clear goal statements...

Welcome to Episode 179 where we talk about the importance of making friends with healthy boundaries, and not be in a space where are secretly trying to get an outcome to happen. In this episode talk about how to be assertive and have healthy communication in our relationships, we MUST do work on boundaries and loving detachment.  If not, we end up rescuing, controlling, and enmeshing, and avoiding...

Welcome to Episode 178 where we look at just how you can build or continue to work on gaining your INNER strength so you can have a confident, strong voice on the OUTSIDE. In this episode we discuss how in order to feel strong enough on the outside, we might first need to do some work on the inside to build our confidence around the things that are private and personal.  We get into what it means...

Welcome to Episode 177 where we get honest about how we need to heal on the inside before we present our authentic self confidently on the outside. In this episode we process the idea that in order to present our outside selves to the world in a confident manner and be able to speak assertively and with emotional honesty, we might need to do some inside work first to make sure we make peace with a...

Welcome to Episode 176 where we start the new month describing how important our self-esteem is to our ability to be assertive. In this episode start to take a look at how important our self-concept is to our ability to be assertive and communicate to others in emotionally mature and healthy ways.  We assess some common beliefs and behaviors that point to self-concept struggles we may have. This m...

Welcome to Episode 175 and my conversation with Steven Rudolph, CEO of Multiple Natures International and creator of Feed Your Tigers. He helps people discover and align their tigers (innate talents) so they can thrive. In this episode we talk about how Steven has created an assessment process that helps you identify your unique talents, and to also help you explore life's work and other ventures...

Welcome to Episode 174 where we talk about how what is going on in your life today is directly affecting your future.   In this episode we are going to get into how the things you do today DO and WILL impact your tomorrow, and good planning and living intentionally and on purpose means we take responsibility for all the big and the little things we do each day, each week, each month each year.  We...

Welcome to Episode 173 where we explore how to identify our gifts and passions. In this episode we explore how early experiences help shape how well we can identify and embrace our gifts and passions. We talk about how we early in life many things can happen that made it hard for us to believe in what is special and important about us.  We talked about how to take steps to not only identify what o...

  Welcome to Episode 172 where we focus on using your gifts and your passions to find fulfilment. In this episode we begin talking about how this month's episodes will be all about discovering, or maybe rediscovering our talents and passions, why it matters for us to really own them and utilize them in order to feel confident and fulfilled, and how to go about this process. So many of my clients o...

Welcome to Episode 171 where I interview results coach James Heppner and explore how he helps clients get clear about their life and where they want to be. In this episode we talk to James, who is a results coach and founder of Weekly Wins and Losses podcast and weekly global community call.  He helps people in their journey to embrace all of life - both wins and losses equally.  James helps you f...

Welcome to Episode 170 where we get into how to get honest about how we use our voice and our behavior.  Do they speak confidence…or not? In this episode we talk about how one of the aspects of feeling and being confident is being gut-level honest with ourselves about who we are, what we are choosing and where we are going. In essence, it's about making friends with reality as I say, because denia...

Welcome to Episode 169 where we talk about how our inner voice is what dictates our outer one, and if we really want to feel grounded and authentic, we need to become better listeners to what is going on inside of us. In this episode we talk about how to be more confident and use our voice out there to ask for what we need, to express our thoughts opinions and feelings, and to assert ourselves, we...

Welcome to Episode 168 where we begin a  new month dedicated to creating confidence, and/or regaining it if that's what we need to do.  In this episode we focus on how you can take this month and really get back to yourself, to get clear, and to make healthy decisions from there.  To me, it's really boundary work…setting limits out there with what is no longer serving us (or ahem maybe never did!)...

EP167 Letting Go of Your Need to Control Your Teenager is the Greatest Gift You Can Give Them   Welcome to Episode 167 where we finish out our month about empowerment with my interview with Jim White, author and coach. This episode is my interview with Jim White. Jim is an author, coach, and founder of The Family Enrichment Academy.   He has spent the last 40 years studying the topics of personal...

Welcome to Episode 166 where we discuss how there are three ways we all communicate, according to Jim Rohn.  We will be passive-aggressive, aggressive, or assertive. In this episode we talked about how to be empowered we must be assertive, which means standing in our truth while being calm, grounded and respectful of others at the same time.  We discussed what assertiveness looks like and what is...

Welcome to Episode 165 where we talk about a foundational piece to empowerment:  having healthy boundaries with ourselves and with others. In this episode we focus on how being empowered means understanding and practicing setting limits, as well as being able to set them with ourselves. We explore the different facets of boundary setting, where we first learn to have them (or not), and ways they a...

Welcome to Episode 164 where we focus on one of the biggest aspects of empowerment: owning our choices and thus owning our life. In this episode we focus on how being empowered means complete ownership of the self, especially keeping ourselves and others in a place of choice and taking full ownership of our choices. We explore the pieces of that ownership from our feelings to our behaviors, to our...