100% Awesome Podcast

Most of us have a deep, biologic instinct to please other people. Not only does people pleasing feel necessary to maintain good relationships, sometimes we even think that it is altruistic and noble and good to put someone else's opinions, needs, and preferences above our own. But the truth is that people pleasing creates resentful, inauthentic relationships that are based on pretending and lying....

Our brain's number one job is to keep us alive. All the thoughts that it offers us day in and day out are meant to protect us in order to meet this objective. However, the very thoughts that our brain offers to keep us alive are also the very thoughts that can keep us from actually living the life we really want to live. Over the past month, I've had some experiences that have reminded me again ho...

There probably isn't a job with more responsibility or higher expectations than motherhood. However, our thoughts about our responsibilities as a mom and whether or not we are meeting the expectations of the job can make mothering even harder. What we sometimes forget is that we are mothering other humans. And those other humans get as much agency and choice as we do.  When we tangle our work and...

Every human being struggles with thoughts and feelings of doubt and fear and discouragement and if you have listened to my podcast for any length of time you have heard me explain that this is because of the way our brains are biologically programmed. Noticing what's wrong with us is our brain's way of ensuring our survival. However, this is just one way of looking at our experience with negative...

God and the grace he offers us is the biggest source of strength we have in challenging times, but most of us aren't accessing that strength and asking for his help because we think he's mad or disappointed or frustrated with us.  Nothing could be further from the truth and understanding God's infinite love and constant approval of you will change your relationship with him. In today's podcast I'm...

Your brain's really good at seeing what's gone wrong. But that is only ever half of the story. There is also a whole lot of wonder happening in your life right now and in today's podcast, I want to put all your attention on that.  Your life is a gift, exactly as it is, and no matter what's happening, no matter where we are or what reality we are living, there is always the wonder of growth, of cho...

Your brain's number one job is to keep you alive and, for the most part it, does this by keeping you small and safe and doing things you've always done in the way you've always done them. Your brain has very little interest in you living your fullest, biggest, bravest life and so every time you go to change and grow and create more from your life, it's going to put up a lot of resistance. The way...

The most powerful force in our lives is thought. Our thoughts have more constructive or destructive power than anything else in the world. And our thoughts don't just change us. They change history. They change the world.  Sometimes we can get overwhelmed by how much we want to change in our lives and how many thoughts we have that are not serving us. But the truth is that thought is such a powerf...

Even when we are ready to change our lives and we're sick and tired of being sick and tired and even when we've decided that coaching is the way we want to make those changes, our fear and anxiety can still keep us from signing up. Because it turns out that just like anything else in our lives, our brains have thoughts about coaching. They have thoughts about us and whether we deserve coaching and...

Because our brains think approval from others is necessary for our survival, most of us are pretty good at meeting other people's expectations and not letting other people down.  However, when it comes to us and keeping our commitments to ourselves, it's a whole lot harder to count on us. But having a rock-solid relationship with yourself and knowing that you can count on you is one of the best fe...

Our brain wants to tell us that change is too big, too hard, too out of reach—that the difference between where we are and where we want to be is just too far to ever be possible. But we only ever have to take one step at a time and the best first step is to sign up for coaching. Coaching not only makes any change practical, doable, and possible, it also teaches you how to love yourself all the wa...

We all have goals and dreams for our lives. Each one of us has nudges and urges and desires to grow and change, increase our capacity, and amazing things with our lives. And yet, more often than not, we find ourselves not doing the things we say we want to do. We make plans, we make declarations, we get sick and tired of being sick and tired and we tell ourselves that "This is it! We're done going...

Being a human is incredibly challenging. But what makes things even harder is the nearly constant nagging and criticism that can come from our own brains. Many of us are especially harassed and bothered with the thought that we should be different—in. every. way. One of the gifts of coaching is being able to see that every one of these thoughts is optional and unnecessary. And when we stop believi...

In order to change or grow any result in your life, the only thing you have to do is grow your thinking. And I have two ways to help you do that: Free Class: Is Coaching the Answer for You? Friday, March 4th at 9 am PT. You can register at https://www.aprilpricecoaching.com/coaching (If you can't come live there will be a replay sent to everyone that is registered.) Made for More – My next coachin...

Recently, my husband and my daughter were both "released" from their service assignments in our church. Their experience of the end of their service and the grief they have felt at the end of these sweet periods in their lives have reminded me that there is a release date ahead for every one of us. Our earth life experience is limited. We only have so many days, we only have so many hours, to have...

There is a very real fight happening in your life every single day—the fight between what your brain wants and what you (as an eternal, spiritual being) want. And I want you to win that contest. I want you to win your life.  Your brain is solely working for your body. It's doing what it thinks is best for your body in any given moment and it is motivated by pleasure, the avoidance of pain, and the...

There is a very real fight happening in your life every single day—the fight between what your brain wants and what you (as an eternal, spiritual being) want. And I want you to win that contest. I want you to win your life. Your brain is solely working for your body. It's doing what it thinks is best for your body in any given moment and it is motivated by pleasure, the avoidance of pain, and the...

You all know I'm a massively huge fan of coaching. It changed my life in every possible way and the best part is that that change is not done. The changes that have happened in my perspective, my awareness, my creation, my possibility, and my capacity are only just beginning. On today's episode of the podcast, I am joined by my son, Caleb Price, who is also a certified life coach, and we talk abou...

There are just so many circumstances in our lives that we cannot change. Some of them are mistakes we make, some of them are mistakes other people make, some of them are just the result of living in a fallen world where there are accidents and death and disease. And even though we live in a reality with circumstances that we cannot change and cannot control, our human tendency is to argue with thi...

When we think about creating new habits, we naturally tend to focus our attention on our behaviors and actions.  But each of us also have mental habits, thoughts that we have thought repeatedly and often, sometimes for years or even decades of our lives. The more we think the same thought, in fact every time we think the thought, the deeper and more efficient our neural pathways to that thought be...

A lot of us spend a lot of time in our lives trying to figure out why we're here and what we're supposed to be doing while we're here. This can leave us trying to find fulfilment and purpose through the things we do—and this is a stressful way to live. Instead of figuring out what we WANT to do, we get preoccupied with what we HAVE to do or what we SHOULD be doing and measuring our worth according...

When we set goals or go to create new things in our lives, we often feel excited and motivated and energized. However, these feelings don't last very long. Because our brain's objective is always to get us to stop, the positive emotions that were there when we set the goal are usually quickly replaced by negative ones. This is a problem because our emotions fuel and power our actions. In order to...

When we go to change our lives, our brains automatically go to work trying to figure out what we need to do differently. We make lots of goals and plans. We set up new systems and schedule and resolve to stick to them. But changing what we do without changing our thoughts doesn't work for long. This new year, I want you to think about the power of changing your thoughts instead of your actions. An...

The end of the year is always a good time to reflect on our growth and the things we are learning while we are here on earth. Most of us think we know the way things should go, but life is always giving us the exact lessons we need. Everything happens FOR us, and I think it's always valuable to stop and notice and remember the lessons that you got this year that you could get in no other way.   In...

Most of us have a lot of expectations when it comes to the holiday season. And when our expectations don't match up with reality, it can create a lot of suffering for us, especially when it's supposed to be "the most wonderful time of the year." But our expectations are just thoughts masquerading as "rules" for a perfect holiday season. And when we believe these thoughts, we're likely to think som...