Be the CEO of Your Life

Money anxiety. In this episode I will give you the exact steps I followed to go from being a broke refugee to owning multiple real estate properties.   While there is some strategy involved, my focus point for this episode is to teach you to manage your mind and its relationship with money.    Listen up to gain a new perspective on why you might feel anxious around money, what to do about it and h...

This episode will walk you through some basic steps to stop the mean inner conversation in your head.   Thoughts can be like beautiful flowers or like nasty weeds. Our job is to take care of the garden in which they grow (the mind). Everyone needs to clean the garden from weeds, so our mind is no different. We need to clean the mind on a regular basis in order to ensure that our “weedy” thoughts a...

Show notes: Every year that ends leave us with some pretty significant lessons. It is totally up to us to grab those lessons and bring them forward to the new year. In this episode, I’m walking you through my biggest lessons of 2022.  I will tell you the strategies I use to review my year and how I intentionally choose what to do with those lessons moving forward. Listening to this episode will fo...

  Making small decisions every day compound to big results later.   Before you make a decision ask yourself: What would it be the compound result of making this same small decision every day, for a full year?   When you think of decisions as singular acts that do not impact the future, you minimize their power, and this is how you end up with regrets.   Whether you suffer from decision paralysis o...

What is your relationship with planning?   There are three types of planners: The very attached to the plan and the outcome, the ones who engage in some planning but not really see themselves as planners and the ones who never plan at all. What do they all have in common? They are all avoiding feeling one tiny feeling. Curious to find out what feeling all the planners and not planners are trying t...

You are interested in coaching or therapy, but you are terrified of doing it in a group setting. Your worst fear is to feel embarrassed, to feel rejected and to expose yourself vulnerable in front of others.   In this episode we break down the myths people have about getting help in a group setting and we highlight why this type of work is far more beneficial than only doing one on one work.   The...

Do you ever feel that no matter how much you do, it’s never quite enough? Do you keep moving the bar up for when it is that you will finally be happy, successful, satisfied??   Do you grow your list of things to do and your self-expectations in an attempt to quiet the inner voice that keeps whispering…”what else can you do?, what else do you need? What else can you achieve?   You might be operatin...

Do you ever have BIG ideas or thoughts but don’t know where to start to see them through?   In this episode, we are going to be talking with certified coach Marie Lewallen McDonald about breaking down how change-makers think and act so that you can do what they do- and take your ideas out of your head and put them into the world where they belong- today.   The more we believe in our own ideas, the...

What if it took you longer to get to where you wanted to get? But the destination is way better than the initial one that you thought you could get to?   In this episode we are going to be talking to my friend and CEO coaching client Micheline all about how she has learnt overtime to change her mindset for the better as well as how she has learnt to be Ok with where she is and to “sit in the mud”...

Do you ever feel that you have a lot of guilt and obligation, and sometimes even resentment when you're doing things for yourself and for others?   Today's episode is all about how to clean our energy so that we can live a simple, happy, free of guilt, free of fear life.   If you were to truly ask yourself, “why am I doing this?”, you will always bring it back to somebody else's expectations of yo...

In this episode we're going to answer the question “why do we stay longer than we want to feeling these unwanted, difficult emotions? You stay in an unwanted emotional state way longer than you desire for one simple reason… Resistance.  What you resist, persists. It is not just a saying, it is the truth.   No emotion, no circumstance and no pain lasts forever. You won't be “in the hole” of having...

On today’s episode we're going to be talking about complaining. Why it doesn't work, why we do it, what is the root cause of it and what to do instead of complaining. I bet you anything, you're not the only one who thinks complaining is a form of communication. I suppose any kind of words are a form of communication, but complaining is not an efficient way of communicating what we actually want to...

Do you ever feel that it is hard to make genuine friendships as an adult? That it doesn’t come as easy as it once did when you were younger? On today’s episode we are going to be talking with my friend Lucie about how to cultivate friendships as an adult, how to get what YOU need out of a friendship, as well as how to be the friend that you would want in your life.  Lucie Bacchiochi has been worki...

In this episode we are going to talk about all the things from Detox the mind to Reset Your Mindset to finally Being the CEO of Your Own Life. If you didn't guess it yet, these are the names of my coaching programs.    I get quite a lot of questions about them on a regular basis. So I thought it would be helpful to have an episode that I can refer people to on a regular basis to listen to about wh...

How do you define a problem? Today we're going to be talking about the steps that I follow to solve a problem. These steps have really helped me center my mind on problem solving, and also on understanding “why is this a problem?”  and “what will be required of me and my thinking to resolve this problem?”    In this episode I will walk you through where you can use your brain to problem solve, to...

Have you ever expressed gratitude beforehand?    Before landing the promotion, before the favor is made, before making the money, before evidence that what you want will be here, have you expressed gratitude?   In this episode we are going to talk about feeling gratitude before having evidence.    When you connect to gratitude before the thing you want is even here, you open the doors to abundance...

What does it mean when we say something is “meant to be”? In this episode we're going to talk about things that are meant to be, what it actually means, and how we can just accept whatever we're going through today, because maybe, it is going to land us exactly where we need to go, even if it is away from our original plans.  There is no surprise that our mental health and our confidence is damage...

What tells you that you are off balance? We tend to think we are out of balance when we are about to make sudden changes in our lives, for instance being a businesswoman to becoming a mother. We fear that we might fail to do both and have a balanced life while managing to be the best in two things at the same time. In today's episode, we are going to audit together our beliefs about a balanced lif...

How many times have you lowered your goals and expectations? How many times have you quit even before setting the goal? Quitting before completing any of your goals comes from how you perceive failure. Visit  olgasway.com  for full show notes.   My doors will be opening soon on the September 26 cohort of my Reset Your Mindset group. So if this is for you, if you are a perfectionist, attached to ac...

The brain either focuses on creation or destruction. There is a creative energy that is forming amazing experiences and there is the negative energy that is destroying the life of your dreams. How can we master focusing only on creative energy?  There is a faculty of your brain that uses discipline and can be incredibly powerful to you. This is the power that highly successful people are grasping....

It’s the quiet ones that exude the most power. This is because their transformation from shyness to loud strength requires a stronger level of work and dedication to themselves. In today’s episode, I speak with Lina, who in my head is an underdog. She came into the Reset Your Mind course just identifying the many things she had to work through and really doubting herself. She wanted to progress in...

Going for the life of your dreams is to dive into a thick layer of discomfort. It is easier for us to look away from what’s really painful and just go around the edges onto another painful area. But what happens when you allow yourself to feel comfortable in the pain and be willing to be open to the support of others? In this episode, my friends, Janine and Myriem are just finishing their first ro...

Everyone is a work in progress. And we also have to understand that we're not perfect. No, one's perfect. We all have things that we're working on and that's why we decide to change our mindset through life coaching.  In this episode, Geneviève and Melissa, and I talk about the amazing advantages of signing up for anything self-help as well as the real obstacles we face when we decide to take a st...

Those of you who feel that you can never quite connect in your relationships, and never feel valued or understood are all symptoms of a lack of boundaries in a relationship.  Grownups have the capacity to have these thoughts and emotions and eventually process having these boundaries to the best of their ability. They can either disagree, agree to disagree, or agree to part ways in a relationship...

Why do we have such a hard time deciding to invest in ourselves? I hired a new coach and I've got all these thoughts about what it felt like to make this investment. My mind had so many thoughts about why that was a scary move, and why I shouldn't invest that much money since it's very expensive. What if I didn't bring that money back? What if I failed at trying her strategic steps and tools? What...