100% Awesome Podcast

We are powerful creators. There is nothing we want in our lives that we can't create by changing the way we think. But often when we go to do new things, create a different reality, think new things, or build new capacities or abilities, our brain will tell us that we can't because we've never done it before. Your brain thinks you need evidence from the past in order to be able to create things in...

Your life is really just the physical manifestation of the invisible relationship between you and your brain. What is that relationship like? Who gets the most say? Who is driving the conversation? Which of you is deciding what you do and how you feel most days? Who is in charge in your relationships? Which one of you is deciding how you spend your time or your money? Which one of you has the most...

In order to help others and do the work that we are uniquely capable of doing in this world, we each have to overcome the fears of our brain. Our brain cares about our survival, not our impact. In this episode, I encourage you not to give up and not to give in to your fears. I'm sharing what's really going on when you're scared to show up in the world and how to overcome your brain's fear and anxi...

Even when we want to forgive, it can feel difficult to do. But the way we think about forgiveness can make it even more difficult because it can be hard to let go of negative feelings when we think someone else created them. But no one can create any feeling for us. Our pain is always created by our own thoughts. And when we really understand this, we can see that the key to forgiving others is no...

The purpose of repentance is to change and create a reconciliation between us and God so that we can reconnect to who we really are and who we are trying to be. But sometimes the way we think about repentance doesn't create connection and peace—it creates shame. Instead of reconciliation, this shame creates distance and separation which is the opposite of what we want. In today's episode, I'm offe...

Even after we understand that our thoughts are creating our emotional experience and we know that to feel better we can choose what we want to think on purpose, it can still be hard to do it. Especially when things are difficult it can feel really hard to change our thoughts. What do we do then? What do you do when your brain says everything is stupid? In today's episode I'm sharing some ideas to...

Over the last four years I have changed my life in lots of significant ways. And all of that change was created because I started thinking differently. Today I'm sharing ten life-changing things that I have learned that have made the biggest impact on my life and my relationships. They are the ten things I wish everybody knew. No matter who you are or what your life looks like, I think if you real...

Sometimes when we hear that we are capable of anything and that it's possible to create any change we want in our lives, we use that amazing possibility against ourselves. Instead of feeling excited and hopeful, we end up feeling stressed, paralyzed, and wrong. Our brain has all kinds of ways to keep us the same—and shaming ourselves for all the things we aren't doing is one of the most effective....

Our brains are amazing prediction machines. They take the past and they use that evidence to inform us about our future, to tell us what we are capable of and what's possible for us. But so much of what we want to create in our lives doesn't exist in the past and so to get what we want we have to be willing and able to believe things we've never believed about ourselves. In this episode, I share t...

For many years I wasn't proud of the way I was showing up in my life. I could see that I had problems in every area, and I thought that I was the common denominator in all of it. I thought that I was the problem. But the real common factor creating our lives is not us, it is our brain. And if we aren't getting the results we want, we don't have to change us, we just have to change what we are choo...

We each have an infinite capacity to change and become, but our brain is not interested in that at all. In fact, our brain is super resistant to change. Your brain only wants to keep you alive in the easiest, more energy-efficient way possible. It is not interested in becoming anything. It just wants to stay the same. As soon as we try to change and grow, in any area of our life, our brain offers...

Just like any other area of our life, when we are considering the decision to hire a coach our brains can get in the way. They can produce thoughts that create fear, doubt, skepticism, anxiety, and even embarrassment for us. And while these emotions do a great job of keeping us "safe," they also keep us the same. In this episode of the podcast, you'll hear the thoughts and experiences of some of m...

Most of us think that we're supposed to be good parents. And we make that mean that we shouldn't make any mistakes and, if we are doing our job right, our children shouldn't either.  We think it means that our children will be happy and successful. The trouble is that so much of what we call "success" in mothering and parenting are things that we have no control over. In this episode of the podcas...

Most of us have never been coached and we might not know what to expect from coaching or how coaching can help us. In this episode, I explain what I do as a coach and how that can help you in your life. I'll explain the purpose of coaching, the method and the philosophy behind my coaching and the goals I have for all my clients. Most importantly, this episode will show how coaching is different th...

Life is full of contrast, conflict, and even catastrophe. We are never going to be able to control the world or the people in it, and that can feel scary until we understand that life is designed that way for our maximum growth. In today's episode I am talking about your emotional wellness, how you can take care of yourself and take charge of your emotional life so that you can feel how you want,...

As humans, we have an instinctive tendency to want to avoid pain and discomfort. This inclination can sometimes lead us to live our lives avoiding failure and seeking the perfect circumstances—the perfect mate, the perfect job, the perfect house in the perfect place—in order to ensure our happiness. But when we need life to go right or be easy in order to be happy, it makes it really easy to give...

Sometimes we think that extraordinary lives are few and far between, hard to get, and reserved for only a special few. But the truth is that each one of us has the capacity to live an extraordinary life by living with intention and purpose. Everything that you do in your life is optional. You get to choose it all. Your right to choose your life is unalterable and absolute. None of it is determined...

There is so much power in the compounding effect of taking one small action in our life and then repeating it over and over. This idea is especially powerful when it comes to our thoughts because changing our thoughts is just like changing anything else in our life. We do it by thinking one thought and then choosing to think it again and again—until it is the only thing our brain knows how to thin...

Deciding to hire a coach requires us to leave our comfort zone. And whenever we choose to do that, our brain is going to protest. Our brain wants us to stay the same and do things like we've always done them. But we were never meant to stay the same.  We each have an unlimited capacity to grow and change and to tap into our amazing potential to create and become, we're going to have to stand up to...

One of the best skills we can acquire is learning how to like ourselves and our life because it affects every other area of our life. With our brains running the show, we often don't realize that liking ourselves is an option. We don't understand that liking ourselves isn't something that happens to us, but instead it's a choice we make by the way we think about ourselves. Liking ourselves and our...

Our relationships are one of the most important aspects of our earth life experience. But for most of us, if we don't currently have the relationships we want, it feels somewhat out of our control. But that is only because we don't understand that our relationships are created entirely by the way we think. I spent years struggling in my relationships. This all changed when I found coaching and lea...

Your brain is the only problem you have. When you came to earth and got put in a physical body, your brain became an automatic filter between you and your earth life experience. This means that everything outside of you has to go through this filter to be experienced by you. And everything inside of you has to overcome this filter to be manifest in the world. This filter (your brain!) is what is c...

I used to think there were two kinds of people in the world—those that could have what they wanted and the rest of us who couldn't. But now I know that we're all the same. And no matter who you are, we all have the same God-given power to create our life and choose our experiences. There isn't anything that you want that you can't have, there isn't any possibility that exists out there that you ca...

For most of us, what really gets in the way of creating the life we want is pain. We have a natural, biologic aversion to pain that has been useful in keeping us alive. But the need to avoid pain and solve for pain and live a life free from pain can actually keep us from doing the things we want. One of the most powerful things you can understand is that while your brain has a built-in instinct to...

Every result in our life is created by our thoughts. This means that if we don't love the results we are getting, the solution is to change our thoughts. But this is easier said than done because our thoughts "feel true" and our brains fight to be right about them. It can help to recognize that while no thought is inherently good or bad, or right or wrong, every thought has a different capacity to...