Archived Samantha Nivens Show

If you've always made 30 day, 3 month or more short term goals and still haven't reached it, THIS is for you. And truly, overall, the more you can start to think about the long game, long term goals 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, and even 10 years out, and plan backwards the more you can achieve sustainable results and achieve even more vs. never hitting your goals because you are trying to hav...

Maggie Reyes is a Master Certified Life Coach and Modern Marriage Mentor who specializes in helping driven, ambitious women create their best marriages, without waiting for their partners to change or adding more work to their lives. In today's episode Maggie share about her journey to becoming a coach and then several of her MOST POWERFUL tools & how you can use them in your relationship...

If you want to know how to DO the things you don't 'feel like doing', that feel SO uncomfortable- you'll want to listen to this episode. Instead of 'grinding through' the hard things, by making those uncomfortable things more comfortable, you WILL DO THEM vs ditch them. For example, if you are tired after work and don't feel like working out, to explore what will make t...

Interview time! Bobby Campos, a Hybrid Athlete with a focus on weightlifting, triathlon and ultrarunning, is my guest today and he has several powerful stories to inspire you to go after your BIG goals!! We start with his sweat story - how he started overweight growing up and then in college living the normal college life until he found bodybuilding. Then... *Trained for an Ironman with only 8 wee...

Today's episode is a race recap filled with ALL the lessons and takeaways from running 54.69 miles last Saturday at my homemade ultramarathon race. This is for YOU even if you aren't a runner!! There are lessons that can be applied to ANY goal & to LIFE. You do not want to miss it. I get a little emotional at the end sharing one of the most magical amazing takeaways, so listen all the...

My 100 mile race is being MODIFIED. Instead of a 100 mile race, I will now run from sunrise to sunset, this Saturday, September 9th. I am sharing this is to show the REAL LIFE of what going for big goals looks like, how to navigate life & modify your goals vs. simply quitting, and give anyone that needs it, permission to PLAY BIG, even if you don't hit your original goal, but instead to us...

My 100 mile race is being MODIFIED. Instead of a 100 mile race, I will now run from sunrise to sunset, this Saturday, September 9th. I'm sharing the why behind it and the LESSONS I learned from this training season to make this change & how you can take these lessons to go after YOUR big goals & know it is okay to modify & that is actually how goals & growth work! -Learn what s...

This is a tool I use with all my clients and wanted to share with you all! When you are resetting your goals or creating a new goal, you will want to set the tone with this tool I call, Be HER or Be HIM - now. This tool will become your 'north star' to use in any situation, no matter what happens in life and is going on, you don't need to have a perfect plan, you just need to tap into...

We all have them. When you feel like you had a bad day or week, especially after a holiday weekend, vacation, something out of the ordinary, which actually happens a lot more than we realize! How do you keep going towards your goals, to get right back at it?! I share 4 steps to being able to keep moving forward and it's going to surprise you & have you feeling so much relief! If you liked...

If you are feeling stuck in ANY way, this episode is for you. In order to get new, different results than you have now, you'll need to find ways to do things DIFFERENT. I share ALL the ways that can look from eating, workouts, your environment, your mindset/thoughts, alcohol, events/gatherings, and your routines. Really exploring being a rebel about it, being SO different than average, so you...

Today I'm sharing about the 80% Rule - a tool that will literally allow you to go from starting & stopping, giving up on your goals, to consistently showing up week after week for your goals. +Summer of '23 Challenge is ON. -8 week challenge+ maintain after -Starts June 27th (but truly you can start whenever if you miss that date!) -Where: in the ULTRA Life Group Coaching -What to expe...

This is one of my favorite stories from ultra running! When I ran the 6hr Resolution Run ultra race with no training, had zero expectations - in fact I told myself it was totally okay to walk if I needed or wanted to, had gone out the night before, and blew my own mind by running 35.6 miles that day, taking first place female and 2nd place overall for the 6hr race! This is a story for YOU. It'...

Becca Pike is a wife and mom of 4 young kids as well as an avid athlete and wine lover. At age 25, Becca found herself still bartending and scraping pennies together to sustain her less-than-exciting lifestyle of non-stop double shifts and restaurant over-time. After hitting an emotional and financial rock bottom, Becca turned a new leaf and dove head first into learning everything she could about...

How can you make your plan way more SIMPLE, to get WAY MORE results?? Are you trying to do alllll the things, have tried to do more, make your diet/eating plan complicated, same for workouts - do more, all the things, listen to all the gurus, read all the books, so much so that you don't actually have a SUPER SIMPLE PLAN that you will do?! Most of us try to do it all, try to do more, think we...

Too many times we think we have to do MORE, have to do alllll the things, think we need the next guru/book/expert to know what to do, and are doing what is the normal vs. doing whatever it takes to reach our goals. Tune in to hear 3 simple tools that will help you now & anytime you are working towards a goal!! If you liked this episode, please be sure to share with a friend and rate us on iTun...

This one is POWERFUL.  I share my story of how I almost quit at mile 85 when running my 100 mile ultramarathon...but didn't and how I came back even faster & finished even with so many circumstances that would have most of us quitting. I share 5 lessons from this experience that anyone can use in their life to NOT QUIT.  To keep going towards the finish line, the final goal, no matte...

You have goals for 2023 -and you want to make sure you ACTUALLY reach them this year, or truly anytime you have a BIG goal you want to reach.  Tune in to hear the 3 steps to be able to finally achieve your goal.  If you liked this episode, please be sure to share with a friend and rate us on iTunes! Make sure you don’t miss a single episode, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, RSS, or...

Happy New Year!  This whole month we are going to be focused on kick starting 2023 - starting with finding your word for the year, that will be your north star for what you do this year - how you show up.   Your one word will allow you to instantly anchor into your goals & vision and take actions that SERVE you, in the moment, to do what you want to do and planned to do vs. what you...

This is a quick, but POWERFUL episode.  Just like we all have and honor what kind of work/career lights us up and we show up for, honor our soulmate and what kind of partner is best for us, we honor what kind of house/car/style lights us up, it is time we HONOR and lean into what kind of eating, work outs, and overall healthy habits light us up, which will therefore have us SHOWING UP... Whic...

Saying NO to the in the moment comfort or pleasure is WORTH it to reach your end goal. Tune in to get clear on your WHY you would say no, why it is worth it.  Re-listen to and use this as motivation any day to keep your word & commitment to your goal & DREAM vision. If you liked this episode, please be sure to share with a friend and rate us on iTunes! Make sure you don’t miss a singl...

If you really, actually want to achieve your goal, I would offer to GO ALL IN.     Most of the time we have half assed, hoped, wished, and tried to achieve a goal and never truly went all in to make it inevitable.   This episode shares the difference and gives you the tangible ways, what it looks like to go ALL IN. If you liked this episode, please be sure to share with a frien...

What RULES are you telling yourself, that are stopping you from showing up and reaching your goals??   Rules that you grew up with, so it's what you have known and done all your life, rules from a previous job or what everyone says you should do, what your partner or friends do and have told you, what a book or article you read said, etc... Rules like....you can't workout at night, you have t...

If you are feeling STUCK and are NOT getting RESULTS, you want to tune into this short and sweet episode that will empower you to be able to start moving forward & get unstuck.  To start to create NEW results.  No matter how stuck you feel, no matter what your circumstances are, no matter what you have been doing or tried.   PS: The 21 Day Energy Reset starts Aug 7th - join us t...

Weight loss transformation with Jeffrey Campbell - a father, a husband, who works hard and decided that no matter what was going on in his life, he was going to change it.  Tune in to hear Jeff's powerful transformational story, his big why that fueled the start of the change, how the next two years went to create the transformation going from 308lbs to 182lbs in two years and maintaining it...

This episode is about the name change to 'The ULTRA Life' & two lessons for YOU to apply to whatever goals you have and are working towards, to know that there is no 'perfect' recipe to create what you want.  There is making a plan, executing, failing, failing, failing, evaluating, then a new plan, and rinse and repeat until you FIND the best weight loss, the best business, the best relat...