A Change in Story

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores an easy, fun way to identify some of your values by looking at the people who inspire you. As a quick refresher, values are essentially an internal guidance system that help us to decide what to move toward or away f...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores the difference between values and goals and why it can be helpful to take both into account as you're working toward things you want to achieve.  Goals, for one, provide a destination, like the end point on a map, wh...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores what-if thinking and one way to help manage the "what ifs," especially when we're worried about the future. "What-if" thinking can creep in when things feel unknown or unpredictable, and our minds might start to over...

Today's episode features an interview with Prasant Nukalapati, founder of What Comes Next Ed Consulting, which supports young people launching into adulthood. This is the second time Prasant has joined the podcast to talk about life after high school and some of the different paths that are available, and in this episode he shares his own personal journey of taking a nontraditional path through co...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores the idea of naming your brain and why this can be a helpful strategy for reducing stress and even improving self-confidence. If you've never heard of this strategy before, naming the brain is a technique that can be...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores self-compassion and how we can use it to motivate ourselves, in spite of the misperception that if we're too nice or lenient with ourselves, then we'll never achieve anything. That type of thinking actually motivates...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores three different ways to practice mindfulness that don't involve sitting down to meditate.  While mindfulness often gets equated with meditation, the two are actually distinct.   In a nutshell, mindfulness is the abil...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores some of the different ways that spending time in nature can help expand creativity and problem-solving abilities. For years there's been more and more research suggesting that spending as little as 10 to 15 minutes o...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores the word "should" and how using "should statements" can lead to things like anxiety, feeling down about ourselves and even feeling less motivated.  The use of should statements is pretty common and most of us tell ou...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic looks at the difference between self-care and coping and how both are beneficial but play different roles in helping to maintain wellbeing.  First off, self-care tends to be more proactive while coping is more reactive. Meani...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic is a further exploration of multitasking but this time specifically looking at media multitasking and some of its effects on brain and mental health.  Media multitasking is the term that's used to describe the art of consumin...

Here's a quick, three-minute tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores the truth behind multitasking and why it's not always providing the productivity rewards you might expect.  In today's world, most of us are multitasking some or even most of the time. With modern technology, we can...

Here's a three-minute, quick tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores what is sometimes called the negativity bias and how to challenge it.  This is the idea that as humans we are hardwired to look for the negative or for potential threats in order to survive.  Another aspect of the ne...

Here's a three-minute, quick tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic explores the idea of postponing worry in order to help reduce the effects of stress on your day-to-day life.  This can be especially helpful in times when what we're worried about doesn't have an immediate or simple solution....

Here's a three-minute, quick tip where we break down a mental health or personal development topic in 180 seconds to help you shift or reframe your perspective. Today's topic is the relationship between anxiety and excitement and how you can actually sometimes use excitement to help counteract the effects of stress in situations where you need to perform.  Both anxiety and excitement can feel very...

In this episode, Mark Winters shares the unexpected journey that led him from a successful career as an aerospace engineer and businessman to becoming a Texas-based rock singer-songwriter. Mark reflects on the moment he first discovered his passion for performing and how that experience reignited his creativity and love of writing poetry. He also shares the highs and challenges of starting over in...

After decades of caring for family members, Debbie Weiss realized that she no longer wanted to live at the mercy of her circumstances, so she decided to prioritize herself. Her mindset shift not only transformed how she approached life, but it also inspired her to begin writing a book about her experiences. However, just as Debbie started working on her memoir, she found herself in another caregiv...

Welcome to the first episode of A Change in Story , a podcast about the moments that reshape how we see ourselves and the world around us. In this inaugural episode, you'll hear the story of Don Akchin, a career-long journalist and writer who is changing his view of what it means to be retired.  After realizing that this stage of life wasn't exactly what he thought it would be, Don began researchi...

Mike Wysocki spent 30 years in a job he hated. After graduating college and feeling unprepared for the working world, he stumbled into a career in tech sales, which paid well but didn't exactly reap joy.  Eventually, Mike started wondering if he was the only one who felt miserable in his job, or were other people just as unhappy at work? To find out, Mike surveyed 101 professionals, including mort...

Today's episode is a conversation with Ed Howard, founder of One Breath Leadership, a new human-centered leadership framework that combines neuroscience, psychology, AI and three decades of Zen training to help people prevent burnout and overwhelm.  Take a listen to hear the story behind Ed's system that blends his 20 years experience in the high-pressure environment of global investment banking w...

Today's episode features an interview with Chip Scholz, an executive coach, author and wood turner, who shares his story navigating an unexpected layoff from a job he loved and eventually finding purpose as a coach helping to develop people.  Like most stories, Chip's wasn't linear or without curveballs, including a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and without the ability to speak.  Take a...

This week's podcast episode features a conversation with Danielle Frank, a newly published author whose debut book offers a tongue-in-cheek take on parenting, which she found has some striking similarities to winemaking.  Drawing on her background in the wine and spirits industry, Danielle noticed the parallels between making a great bottle of wine and raising great kids and decided it would make...

Deciding what comes next after high school can carry a lot of weight. With the pressure to "stay on track," young people may feel that four-year college is the only option, but it doesn't have to be. In this episode, Prasant Nukalapati—a mentor and coach who works with young people as they navigate their post-high school paths—shares practical strategies for evaluating whether four-year college is...

Today's episode features an interview with Nan Saysana, who made the decision to leave a 20-year career in teaching to become an emotional-eating coach. Nan shares the pivotal moments that inspired her to step away from a secure role within the French civil service and follow a new calling to support women through a struggle she once faced herself. Tune in to hear Nan's story, including how her lo...

Today's episode explores passion decline, or what happens when your passion for work starts to fade, and what you can do to get it back. To help dive deeper into this topic, international speaker and consultant Dr. David Shar joins to share some of his research-backed insights and real-world examples of how people can rediscover meaning, excitement and fulfillment in their careers.  For example, D...