100% Awesome Podcast

In this special bonus episode of the podcast, I am offering some thoughts to help ease your worry and fear, and empower you to decide how you want to think about what is happening in the world right now.   No matter what happens outside of you, your agency to create your experience is always there inside of you.  And I want you to know that, even now, peace and confidence and joy are 100% availabl...

Before we can adopt a new belief, we have to be willing to be wrong about the old one. This may seem obvious, but it is harder than it sounds because our brain loves to be right. In this episode of the podcast, I'll show you how being willing to be wrong is essential for growth, why our brain wants to hold so tightly to old beliefs, and help you be willing to be wrong more often, so that you can g...

Over the last couple of years I have invested thousands of dollars in coaching and, if given the choice, it is an investment I would make again and again. This is because of the unlimited value that coaching has provided in my life. In this episode of the podcast I share the ten most valuable things I have learned and discovered through coaching and explain why I think coaching can be so valuable...

When we believe we shouldn't feel negative emotion, we add more negative feelings to our lives, compounding our misery and increasing our pain. The answer to this is to get good at feeling our negative emotion, instead of trying to resist it. The more we can allow our negative emotion, the more we can avoid compounding our misery. Learn how to avoid compound misery to alleviate your suffering. htt...

It's easy to use our flaws and mistakes as a way to punish ourselves into growth and change. We have lists of all the things we want to remove or eliminate in ourselves—thinking if we cut all these parts out of us, we can change into a better version of us. But it doesn't work. Self-destruction does not create. Instead of wanting to become less, the key is to focus on becoming more of who and what...

Love isn't magic or destiny. Love doesn't come and go by itself. Love isn't a result of the actions of another. It doesn't move from one person to another. Love can't even be shared. Love isn't a result of anything outside of us—it is always a result of a thought inside of us. Learn how to identify the thoughts keeping you from feeling love. You are responsible for how much love you feel, which gi...

We know that we create our feelings with our thoughts, but we notice that others are still under the impression that their feelings are created by the things outside of them. The good news is that we don't have to fix this in order to feel okay about them or their feelings! Learn how to let other people feel what they want, how to give up people pleasing, and how to feel whatever you want about yo...

Whenever we go after a goal and spend energy growing and evolving, our brain wants us to stop. So it offers us limiting thoughts about our progress, our identity, our capacity, our limitations, and our decisions—and these thoughts keep us from achieving our goals. In this episode, Susan Dangerfield talks about common thoughts that keep us stuck and how to get around our brain's objections so that...

In this very special episode of the podcast I interview author, Rachel Stewart, about how to turn our beliefs into reality by taking action, even in the face of self-doubt or fear.   I talk to Rachel about how we don't have to feel "qualified" or ready to start taking action, how to recognize that fear is both a liar and a necessary companion to any achievement, and why it's always worth doing har...

In order to accomplish what we want in our lives, we have to believe we can.  All our results start with our beliefs. But our brains are programmed to notice the negative and use that information to define our present and create our future.  To get different results, we need to interrupt our brain's "prediction machinery" and think new thoughts. So how do we do this? Here are three keys to believi...

We sometimes forget that we are always making a choice.  These choices add up to create the life we have, even if we don't realize it. I invite you to honestly examine the idea that we only do what we want to do.  This perspective shows us that there aren't actually any "have to's" in our life, and that everything we do is our choice—allowing us to give up blame and resentment, own our choices and...

We all have goals and things we want to accomplish in our lives. But sometimes the way we've been taught to think about goals is actually getting in our way, making accomplishing and achieving our goals harder. I invite you to rethink how you set goals by understanding we don't become better when we achieve goals, achieving our goals won't make us happy, our goals should be hard, and when it comes...

This year I have received so many gifts from my coaches.  I picked just five that made the biggest impact on my life this year to share with you.   These thoughts and ideas were given to me by the very best coaches and teachers out there—Brooke Castillo, Jody Moore, Susan Dangerfield, Danielle Thienel, and my own custom-designed life curriculum.  I hope they bless your life like they have blessed...

We spend most of our lives just thinking on default. We have lots of old, unexamined thought habits. A thought habit is just a thought we have thought over and over again creating a well-rehearsed neural pathway. But the brain has the power to create new neural pathways any time.  This neuroplasticity allows you to purposefully create productive and positive thought habits, and decide how you want...

When we evaluate our progress in life, we tend to judge our accomplishments with a finite mindset. But this can be frustrating when we are working in areas of infinite growth, like fitness, personal development, relationships, or spirituality—where there is no finish line. It's powerful to view your life and your progress with an infinite mindset, and shifting your thoughts in this way can keep yo...

By and large, most of us are not very good at feeling our feelings. We don't have a lot of practice or skill at feeling, allowing and processing our emotions.  Instead, we spend our time and energy avoiding, resisting or reacting to our emotions.   In this episode, I'll show you how to process any emotion and show you the power that allowing your emotions will give you in your life. https://www.ap...

Because we have human brains, we aren't programmed to notice the magic, miracles, and awesomeness of our lives.   But that does not mean they don't exist! To find more joy and awe, we have to purposefully redirect our brains to notice all the gifts that are there, that go mostly unnoticed.   Here are three tools that you can use to help you recognize the truth about your awesome life and recalibra...

In life, we interact with people that we think are "difficult." In reality, there are no difficult people. There are just people. Who do stuff. And then we have lots of thoughts about the things they do, and then we make that mean that they are "difficult." One of the most powerful things you can learn is that the only thing that makes other people difficult is our interpretation of them—and knowi...

Just like any other characteristic we have, our brain has an opinion about our bodies. And because our brain is programmed to find problems, its opinion about our body is always focused on what is wrong or undesirable about our physical appearance.   In this episode, I'll show you that how you think about your body is a choice and I'll teach you how to retrain your brain to see and think about you...

Most of us think we are supposed to feel good about ourselves.  And we think there's something wrong with us when we don't.  The reality is that our human brains make it so we don't feel good about ourselves. That's what it means to be human. And we don't have to fix that.  The awesome news is that you can consciously and purposefully redirect your mind to allow you to approve of yourself anyway.....

Our brains are naturally programmed to avoid discomfort.  This has kept us alive and allowed us to make huge advances throughout history. But when it comes to personal development, being willing to experience discomfort can allow us to grow, leave and our comfort zone, do things we've never done, and reach impossible goals.   Learn about optional discomfort—and why you might want to do hard things...

We often feel like we are just at the effect of our life.  But the truth is that how we feel and the life experience we are having is entirely up to us.  The key to taking control of your life experience and creating what you want is to recognize where your control really is.  It is never outside of you.  You have the power to create the life you want by focusing your attention inside of you—on th...

We all have a plan for our life.  We all have an idea of the way it's supposed to go. And then nothing goes according to plan. When we think "This isn't the way it's supposed to be," we resist reality and this adds anger, frustration, and resentment to our challenges.  We end up doubling our pain. In this episode I share three thoughts to help you escape the resentment and anger you feel when thin...

Other people get to think and feel and act like they want.  They have agency to choose how they are going to live their life.  The trouble is that we think what other people do or say then causes us suffering. The reality is that no one can make you feel anything. And no matter what other people choose to do or say, you always get to decide how you want to think about it. You always have the power...

When the people in our lives are suffering, we want to fix things. We want to control their experiences, change their circumstances, and help them find different thoughts and feelings so they can feel better. But while this may feel compassionate, it isn't.  And it doesn't allow us to access the power of divine love. Learn new ways to think about the suffering of others, and find compassion and pe...