The UpLift Pod

We all only have so much room on our plate - let’s make sure we are filling it with all the things that give us life! When someone offers you something to add to your plate, you can simply reply that you’re plate is just as full as you like it. It’s your plate after all! It’s personal. You only have so much space to commit. And you take on only what you intend to consume. Why not make room for joy...

All work and no play makes us dull and oppressed! Join Tessa and Cy in a Joy Rebellion where we see the game for what it is and we choose to infuse some joy in our day - even if it is just a micro dose. Because rest and joy are good for our wellness and we deserve and are worthy of being well and joyful. And because embracing our joy and wellness rejects oppression and it is an act and practice of...

Do you find yourself working and working and being pulled in every direction while your wellness never seems to take priority? You deserve joy and you are worthy of wellness, right now and all the time. But we often struggle trying to find how to put ourselves first or even in the running! Join Tessa and Cy as we find the path together. Let’s tap into the things that brought us joy before we were...

Hey you…yes you! Do you know you are deserving and worththy of pleasure, joy, and happiness? Not at the end of your life or after you achieve some milestone…but right now! Join Tessa & Cy as they challenge us to explore our preconceived notions of suffering, shame, pleasure, and happiness and invite us to enter our pleasure era today.

Do you ever feel like you are being pushed around by your emotions? Like one little comment or maybe one person always throws you into a spiral of emotional distress? You deserve better and you have the power to change this! Listen in as Tessa and Cy explore new tools to protect yourself and take your power back.

Do you ever question yourself, hold yourself back, take pause before going for the next big thing? Invoke your 5-year-old self with Tessa and Cy as they challenge us to push past our hesitancies to create the world we deserve. You are worthy and now is your time! Your younger self is counting on you.

Are you feeling stuck? Wondering how you got where you are in life? Is what you are doing everyday really bringing you joy? Join Tessa and Cy as they challenge us to dig deep and Marie Kondo our lives to a life worthy of you! We all have our priorities, but maybe it’s time to take stock and make sure our priorities include our happiness and self-determination. You are worthy of the life of your wi...

We’ve all been there. We want something so bad and we get a “no” or a “you’re not ready yet.” But instead of taking that to mean we have some imagined deficiency, what if we turned it around to understand that this person is just not ready for us? That they simply do not know how to value us for what we know we are worth and get us closer to stepping into all our greatness. Next time the universe...

Ready to make the switch from a scarcity mindset into abundance? Tune in to this convo on practical ways to get there! This week Tessa and Cy explore the many ways that we can make this shift in our mentality and set ourselves up to fully step into our greatness while building up others around us. Join in and move into your endless potential!

So often we find ourselves holding back. But why? Do we really believe we can’t do it or are we afraid of how we’ll be seen if we do!? Let’s talk about where that doubt and fear really comes from. Because you got this and if it feels a little scary and exciting - maybe you should go for it! Join us as we call out unfounded fears and lift each other up to be brave, courageous, and kind to ourselves...

The strong ones. The ones with a good head on their shoulders. The ones that “have it all together.” They are the ones everyone goes to for advice and emotional support. But who is doing this for them? Join Tessa and Cy for a conversation on how we support our busiest and strongest friends and loved ones. And how we give ourselves permission to make space and time to care for our own health and we...

Criticism is a dirty word but there is no shame when we see the best in each other and choose to lift up instead of punching down. Listen in as Tessa and Cy dissect where our impulse to criticize one another comes from and challenge us to take a new approach. One where we meet people where they are with no judgment and with radical empathy and love. Let’s lift each other up above ignorance, over f...

Does a certain relative or social media influencer make you feel like you can never measure up? Does negative self talk creep in and convince you that you have to suffer and struggle to reach some unattainable and unreasonable expectation set for you by someone else? Run away and break free! Join Tessa and Cy on a journey of discovering how to define your own path and trust your instincts to lead...

Are you ready for an evolution? It’s time to see beyond ourselves and make this about each other. Join Tessa & Cy on their journey toward making the world a better place one interaction at a time!

Sometimes we don’t even notice it, but we all feel the pressures of “being perfect.” It pokes at us as we scroll, as we passively take in ads and reality TV content, it stings when someone we love tosses a casual criticism or hurtful joke our way. All of it cumulates in our subconscious and tells us we are not good enough, that we should be leading our lives differently. But the tricky thing about...

Burnout has become so common we almost expect it! But today Tessa and Cy tackle the issue and say no more. Join in on this conversation on how we can challenge toxic workplace culture to strive for health and wellness for us all.

It’s time to live for you. Whatever choices you make in life, you are the one who has to live with them after all! Join Tessa & Cy today to explore how we can find the people and the tools we need to liberate ourselves and live the life we want, whenever want and however we want!

Good, bad, whose to say? Reality is all in the framing after all! Join Tessa and Cy for a convo on how to take power over the story we tell ourselves and others. Let’s all get in the habit of writing our own narratives for the better!

It is spring time and about time we clear out the stagnate and make space for all things that bring us true joy! Join Tessa & Cy in the process of making space and intention for a joyful and fulfilled spirit. Taking stock of the people and things in our life that bring us happiness and life and making more time and space for them. A technique for building intentional community - we are creatin...

In a world of gray, we choose color! We set our intention today to be the bright spot in someone else’s day and be vulnerable enough to allow others to be our rainbow in our time of need. Join Tessa and Cy as they explore the many ways we can lift each other up - and make a habit of it - so that we are all operating at a higher level, together. Let’s make this world a brighter more colorful place!

The stories we tell ourselves frame our reality and shape the way we see each other. So it is time to write our own story! Join Tessa & Cy as they take on the one dimensional onslaught of bad news and challenge themselves and all of us to start filling out the larger story and finding the hope and humanity in every story. We are in this together and we got this!

It so easy for us to follow a script written and directed by someone else. But you don’t have to settle for a second hand story! Write your own script and make it a great one. You deserve to get to know who you really are and determine the life you want to live, then go live it - unapologetically! Join Tessa and Cy for this episode where they explore how to catch yourself in a harmful narrative, h...

Information overload is just a typical sympom of living in today’s world. We are on the quest to find the antidote! Join Tessa and Cy for a conversation on how to combat the onslaught of information and misinformation for a more peaceful life set with intention and compassion for self and others. Let’s uplift above the noise together!

We all know what it is, we all deserve it, but so often we deny it - even to ourselves! Join in on this chat with Tessa and Cy as they contemplate how we can all do our part to inject a little more respect and humanity into our lives and our workplaces. How will we ever get around to making sure we are taking care of our health and wellness after all if we don’t set each other up for success? Let’...

Does the New Year having you thinking perfectionism is in? You are perfect just the way you are! Join Tessa & Cy as they dismantle the fallacy that everything has to be perfect before you deserve to have the life you want. You are worthy today! Other people’s comments and opinions of your life is like a poop floating on your lake that you can just ignore as it goes by. Live the life you want r...