100% Awesome Podcast

As mothers, we often feel stretched and inadequate and the disruptions created by the pandemic have made things even harder. You are not failing. Your brain just thinks you are. The thoughts your brain offers about your shortcomings as a mother are not only painful, unproductive, and sabotaging the amazing work you are doing, but…they are also 100% optional. You can decide to think about yourself...

Because earth life contains a surprising amount of negative emotion (50%!), one of the best skills we can obtain is to get good at feeling bad. In this episode, I share how to process and feel your feelings, so that you have more control over your emotional life, so you can start doing the things you've been too scared to try. Getting good at feeling bad is the key to getting the life you really w...

As humans and especially as Christians, we believe that we're supposed to be happy—at least, most of the time. And when life is hard, this belief that we should be happy makes us think that something has gone wrong and that either God isn't there or he doesn't care about us. In reality, difficult circumstances are evidence both that God is there and that he loves you, because our circumstances pro...

Our identity is solely created by the collection of thoughts we have about ourselves. We define ourselves by the things we already believe about ourselves. We are what we think we are. When we want to become another version of us, the only thing preventing that is the thoughts we currently believe about ourselves. The fastest way to become who you want to be is to decide to think different thought...

We have each left our heavenly home for an extended period of time to come to earth and have a human experience, which gives us the chance to learn and grow and serve others. In this episode, I share the things that I think are most important for each of to remember as we go on "this mission" and face the challenges of mortality. They are thoughts that have made the biggest difference in my human...

It's a good time to do a little mid-year evaluation and check in with yourself about the results you are creating in your life. Learn why it can be hard to stay on track with our goals, and how to overcome obstacles so we can consistently create more of the outcomes we want in our lives. Here are five ideas to help you get from where you are now to where you want to be. These tools will motivate a...

I have found that the best parts of my life are the parts that my brain was completely wrong about. And I find that the more wrong my brain is, and the more willing I am for my brain to be wrong, the better my life gets. Today I share lots of the things my brain was wrong about in the hopes that you can look at your own life and start to question the things your brain is telling you. https://www.a...

Every Friday, I send out a little video to everyone on my email list, in which I share something that I've learned or applied in my life that has helped me that week.  Today I am sharing the audio recording from one of my recent videos so that you can see how to get even more help from me.  You can sign up for these weekly emails and videos here: https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/your-weekly-shot...

Danny Deaton knows how to change. He went from a strung-out addict to a man who loves his life, his family, and his work helping families heal addiction. He is living proof that you can change anything. Danny's change will inspire you, help you give up the excuses in your way, and motivate you to stop letting temporary solutions prevent you from making the real changes you want in your life. For h...

The idea that it takes two people to create a great relationship keeps many of us from having the relationship we long for. Luckily, this just isn't the case. Each one of us can have the exact relationship we want with anyone—and it's completely up to us! Here is what I have learned about our personal power to create the relationships we've always wanted, and how taking 100% responsibility for the...

We all have confirmation bias that is created because our brain is programmed to gather evidence that our beliefs are correct. But this built-in bias often keeps us from seeing another point of view without getting defensive. Learn how to surrender our defensiveness and use this emotion as a signal to examine our own thoughts, that might be "unkind and invisible," and see it as opportunity to lear...

We all want to change things in our life, but most of us get stuck in the space between our intentions and implementation. Closing this gap is the secret to changing any aspect of our lives. Here are five tools to help you move from just thinking about change to actually creating change in your life. None of these tools involve taking doing more, because it turns out that implementing change in ou...

Many people come to self-improvement from a place of self-rejection and disgust and set off to improve from a place of guilt and shame. This is a losing proposition. Not only are guilt and shame completely unnecessary to change and grow, in most cases they are the very things preventing real transformation. In this episode, I'll show you how to give up guilt and shame so that you can change and be...

We don't need any one to change in order to love them—because if we want to feel love, that is always our responsibility. And it requires us to choose to love, allow, and tolerate others, regardless of their choices. In this episode, I offer some thoughts to help us love people we disagree with, tolerate the intolerant, and allow for wrongness in the world without becoming wrong ourselves. https:/...

While our bodies go through periods of illness or injury, there is so much we can do to improve and take care of our physical health. The same is true for our mental and emotional health. Here are four keys that make a huge difference in managing our mental and emotional life experience. When you put all of these principles into place, they allow you to take control of your own mental and emotiona...

My clients know that the only difference between the life they have and the life they want is the thoughts they choose to think. And so they go to work every day to think powerful thoughts and that gives them incredible results. In this episode, I share some of the beliefs that have made the biggest difference for my most successful clients and, if you choose to believe the same things, it will ma...

Thought is the mechanism of creation. Thoughts have the power to become things. It's important to understand that we create all our results by the thoughts we choose to think. This awareness allows us to see our results differently and take responsibility for the things we have created—inadvertently or purposely— in our life. Learn how thoughts become things, how to choose your thoughts based on t...

Of all the challenges our human brain presents us, loving ourselves might be the hardest. Our brain is convinced that we need to be better (in every way) before we can love ourselves. But this isn't true. In this episode I'll tell you exactly how to develop the beliefs and choose the thoughts that will allow you to love yourself for real. It all starts by recognizing that loving ourselves is a cho...

Learning to take consistent action is how we create anything in our lives. This episode is about how to be consistent and show up for yourself, and I share four tools to help: act in the present, examine your thoughts, make a decision, and create a small container. These tools will allow you to create the life you want through powerful, consistent action. https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/52

Christ's message is one of love and hope. But, as Christians, we often use his message and his work against ourselves—to beat ourselves up, to despise ourselves for faults and weaknesses, to judge ourselves and others, and to inhibit our growth and learning.  This new awareness will allow you to question the unhelpful interpretations your brain might offering you and give you a new way to think ab...

Life offers each of us a chance to grow, develop, innovate, evolve, and create.  But in order to do these things we have to be willing to step outside our comfort zone and confront the protests of our own brains.   The lessons I have learned in creating 50 podcasts can help you as you go to do hard or new things in your own life—even things outside your current capacity—and allow you to go after a...

My life has changed significantly over the last couple of years.  But, fundamentally, the only difference between me today and me then is the thoughts that I think.  In this episode, I want to share some of the lies I used to tell myself in the hopes that you will be able to recognize similar lies that your brain might be telling you.  Our brains never stop selling us on negative thoughts about ou...

As humans, we often think that there is a "right way" to feel—for both ourselves and for others. But judging ourselves and others is a painful way to live. It is heavy. And it adds to your stress and discomfort. But you can set it all of it down. In this podcast, I offer that the alternative to judgment is meekness. When we view ourselves, and others, and God from a place of meekness we can drop o...

"Waiting for things to get better" sounds hopeful, but it makes our current life unacceptable and a little unbearable.  It makes us feel like we have to wait for a different version of our life to show up before we can be happy.   The awesome news is that you don't need to wait for things to change in order to love the life you are living.  In this episode I'll show you that you don't have to wait...

This episode is a little pep talk for your brain! I want you to know that relief is available to each of us whenever we need it. It comes by identifying the true cause of our suffering, embracing the uncertainty of our lives by believing in what is certain, and letting it all be exactly as it is.   No matter the circumstances or the uncertainty and risk in our life, our reaction is always ours to...