BEYOND: The Podcast for Moms Called to Business

Thoughts are powerful. Like a stone tossed out into a pond of smooth, untouched water, our thoughts ripple outward influencing our entire lives. How? First, thoughts create our feelings. Those feelings are what drive our actions and behavior. This means that our thoughts create how we show up in life, and impact our entire life experience. Understanding the ripple effect of our thoughts on our liv...

I know something about you. You and I both. We are storytellers. Think I've gotten you confused with someone else? I get it. But the truth is, you are writing a story every single day, moment by moment. It's not a story that exists on paper, or a laptop, but one that is written in your mind - specifically, in your thoughts and beliefs. You are a very loyal and committed audience of one, and your s...

There are certain skill sets that serve us so well in life, and many of them are ones we aren't taught in school. I've been thinking about the most important skill sets I've learned in my own life, and those I find myself teaching clients. The result? This episode. It's the first of several to come, but in this one, I'm talking about the first important skill we can learn when we're wanting to pri...

We've talked about the power of our beliefs and that our brain will believe whatever we tell it. Today we're talking about five common beliefs that are keeping you stuck. Also known as limiting beliefs, these are things we see as TRUTH. In reality, they are optional thoughts we're choosing to believe about ourselves and our lives - and they're holding us back. They might be holding us back from ta...

How do you measure a year? Most of us... don't. We're so busy living our lives, moving from one thing to the next, that we rarely hit pause. We live lives that feel like we're just going through the motions, living on a never-ending hamster wheel. We feel like we're doing ALL the things, yet feel unproductive at the same time. In this episode of Beyond Happy, I want to offer that we feel this way...

It's been a WHOLE YEAR of Beyond Happy! To celebrate this milestone, we are talking about why I chose this name for the podcast, what these two words mean to me and most of all, WHY it matters. We talk about the piece of scripture that inspires my work on the podcast, how my husband played a role in creating its name, and why I'm so honored to be sharing this life-changing work with you.

So many of us are living our lives in fast-forward. We're rushed, hurried, and at the end of the day, wondering if life is always going to feel this way. Why? Because it feels out of our control - it feels like the hustle and rush are just happening to us. Like we're just trying to keep up with a life that feels like a runaway train. We're often hurrying toward the next thing, and missing out on t...

So many of us want things to be different in life, but no one wants to change. It's this dichotomy that keeps us stuck - holds us back from moving forward or making change. As Dave Ramsey says, if you want to "live like no one else", you have to LIVE like no one else. This is where change happens. In this episode, we're talking about what it looks like to live life differently, to live tomorrow di...

The kids are making Christmas wish lists and we're making shopping lists, travel packing lists, grocery lists and to-do lists. The hustle and bustle of the season (or life, in general) can really take a toll if we let it. Whatever season you're in, I want to encourage you to make The Most Important List. What is that and what does it look like? Let's find out.

It's a question I hear a lot, especially as a coach who helps working moms. The question? If I desire more in my life, does it mean I'm ungrateful for the blessings I already have? Can I be both grateful for everything in my life and yet still want more either personally, professionally, spiritually or financially? I love this question because it's one that I navigated myself for a long time. In t...

It feels appropriate on this Thanksgiving week that we would talk about cultivating gratitude. The truth is, we sometimes laugh at it being referred to as "the most wonderful time of the year" because for many of us, it doesn't feel so wonderful. Many times, the pain and suffering experienced during the holiday system come from believing that something is lacking, something is broken or missing in...

Emotional eating can be a struggle any day of the year, but it's one I hear about often during the holiday season. Emotions are high in both directions: there's excitement, happiness and joy; stress, sadness and other suffering. There are family gatherings, financial challenges and an abundance of food. We joke about "eating our feelings", but we absolutely do. Today, we're talking about the biolo...

It's the "most wonderful time of the year", or  is  it? When I asked you to share with me some of your holiday struggles, your responses were loud and clear. Relationships were at the top of the list. From navigating the season after the death of a loved one, walking through the holidays as a single parent and sharing the holidays with an ex, to spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with people you'...

In this episode of Beyond Happy, we're talking about how the "little things" in life are really the big things. Because how we live our days is how we live our lives. I'm getting personal and have recorded this episode in a more candid, freestyle format for the first time. I'm sharing my own experience getting coached and how asking for coaching on something that seemed "silly" turned into one of...

Thought models are the number one tool I use in my coaching practice. They're valuable because they are a way to simplify some very complex mental and behavioral concepts. These models allow us to connect the dots and see how our thinking influences everything: our feelings, the actions we take, the way we behave, and ultimately, the results we create in our life. Thought models empower us to see...

When it comes to problems in our lives, we always think we know what the REAL problem is. It's the driver who cut us off in traffic, it's what our husband said, how our kids behaved, the unexpected bill we got in the mail. It's ALL the things happening around us. We react to each of these problems differently, but the result is usually the same - pain and suffering for us. In this episode of Beyon...

In episode 48, we talked about your relationship with YOU. The importance of knowing, liking and trusting yourself. In this bonus Friday Five episode, we're taking it a step further. How do you begin to create more self-confidence? Self-confidence is a feeling. And we know our thoughts create our feelings. In this episode, I'm offering you some beliefs to "try on". Beliefs to consider adopting to...

If you're familiar with the Know, Like and Trust Factor, you know that it's a concept familiar in the marketing world. Essentially, it tells us that customers are most likely to do business with people or brands that they 1) know 2) like and 3) trust. But today's episode isn't about marketing or business. It's about you. In this episode, we're talking about how the key pillars of the Know, Like an...

Do you have big thoughts about how your life should be? Do you have ideas about what your life should've been like in the past, how it could've been so much better? Do you think about how other people in your world SHOULD be different - and believe that, if only THEY were different, YOU would feel so much better? We SHOULD on ourselves a lot; it feels useful and productive at the time. It feels li...

Have you ever noticed that when someone around you is feeling sad, you have the urge to DO something to try to make them feel better? Or maybe, when you notice yourself feeling sad, you try to get away from it, you find something else to do to take your mind off what's causing that sadness? Many of us are uncomfortable with sadness. We're uncomfortable feeling it, and we're uncomfortable seeing it...

Do your days feel exhausting, overwhelming and never-ending? Do you find yourself wishing you had some breathing room, some time to slow down in your life? In this episode, we're talking about the importance of building margin into your life. We talk about what that looks like, why it matters and how to get started.

For many of us, making decisions is hard. We spin in circles, feeling stuck and overwhelmed. Often, instead of doing something, anything to move forward, we do nothing at all. In this episode, we take the topic of making decisions a step further with the idea of simply doing the NEXT right thing rather than believing we should be doing ALL the things. When we constrain our focus to the next right...

I heard somewhere recently that on any given day, the average adult makes about 35,000 decisions. Does that make you feel tired? Yeah, me too. Some decisions we make without much thought at all, while some weigh on us like a heavy burden we don't want to carry. It's the discomfort of decisions, of making the commitment, of DOING, that makes us so uncomfortable. And yet, decisions are a part of lif...

Simply put, we say it too much, and it basically means nothing. It's a four-letter word that is culturally acceptable and yet serves none of us well. In this episode of Beyond Happy, we're talking about why we all say it, why it's not useful and how we can stop.

As human beings, our brains offer us a LOT of thoughts about the people in our lives. Those we know and love as well as complete strangers. The thing is, the thoughts we often have about them - conclusions we jump to, assumptions we make - don't really impact the other people. But they do impact US. Our thoughts create OUR feelings, and when we have not-so-great thoughts about others, it makes us...