Bloom Your Mind

In Episode 154, we have some big announcements for new content, programs and courses. We’re also breaking down how to get ahead of one of the most important pieces of human wiring you’ll ever understand: the Motivational Triad. This ancient operating system—designed to help humans survive saber-toothed tigers and harsh winters—is still running the show inside our modern brains. And even though it...

This week, we’re getting practical. In Episode 153: Problem Solving, I walk you through a real-life example of using multiple tools I’ve taught before on the podcast—and show you exactly how to apply them when life throws you a curveball. Here’s the setup: I’m hosting a three-day Lovefest in the desert for 80 people—an outdoor celebration that’s been months in the making. And three days before it...

Every big change, project, or dream starts the same way: with a glimmer of possibility.  A spark. A flicker. A tiny inner knowing that says, Maybe this could be real. But the second that glimmer appears, our automatic brain jumps in to challenge it. It points out everything that could go wrong. It shows us all the gaps between where we are and where we want to be. It offers scarcity thinking, wors...

In this episode, we talk about the powerful truth that we are constantly training people how to treat us. Not through lectures. Not through convincing or explaining. But through the boundaries we set, the behaviors we allow, and the way we show up in our own lives. Often, the patterns we feel frustrated by — being the go-to problem solver, the emotional container for everyone else, or the one who...

Individuality is one of the greatest freedoms of our culture—and also one of its biggest traps. The beauty of individuality is that it allows us to hear our own desires, define our own values, and express our unique contribution to the world. It fuels creativity, innovation, and self-discovery. But when the desire to be original stops us from taking action, it becomes an Achilles’ heel. In this ep...

Most of us were taught that failure is bad. That if we fall short, it means something about who we are—our worth, our capability, our potential. But what if failure isn’t a problem at all? What if it’s the path to everything we want? In this episode, we unpack what I call failure tolerance—the skill of building your capacity to try, fall short, feel the feelings that come with it, and keep going a...

So many of my students reach a point in life where they’ve checked all the boxes: career, marriage, kids, home, stability. They’ve climbed every rung of the ladder they were told to climb. And then one day, they look up and think— now what? In this episode, we explore that moment of disorientation that comes after meeting all of life’s early milestones. You’ll hear why so many of us feel stuck onc...

This week’s episode dives into something we all experience but rarely talk about— embracing all of our weird social reactions. The feelings that rise up when we’re around other people: self-doubt, comparison, superiority, inferiority, grasping, withdrawing, fixing, or trying to prove ourselves. The idea for this episode came to me at a women’s retreat I attended with my daughter, led by facilitato...

The more we put ourselves out into the world, the more people come to know us by the value we add—and the more they begin to depend on us. This is beautiful…until it isn’t. Because over time, the value we add and the strengths we command become commodities people want more and more of. Eventually, we’re faced with a flood of requests: friends needing support, family projects that need a helpful ha...

Last week, I hit pause. A middle-of-the-night migraine, a body that said “nope,” and—after three straight years of weekly episodes—I let myself skip a week. Not because I didn’t care, but because I chose health over hustle for this week . That tiny, honest shift is exactly what today’s episode is about: thought bridges—the believable steps that carry us from an old, harmful loop to a new, supporti...

In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we unpack the cycles of thought that either move us toward the life we want—or pull us away from it. Just like a garden, our minds are always growing something. Some thoughts regenerate possibility and growth. Others are degenerative—reinforcing old, unhelpful beliefs and keeping us stuck. Today we’ll break down how that happens, how to recognize it,...

Seasons change, and so do we. Sometimes we’ve literally got one foot in the next season, as we change from spring to summer, summer to fall. Other times we’re transition a personal season of life, from one era of ourselves to another. This episode is guides you through a process for transitions. A way to pause, witness what’s good in your life, in your world and in yourself, and design how you wan...

Conflict isn’t a detour. It’s the road itself. And if you’re out there making ideas real, you’re going to hit it—whether you like it or not. This week on the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, we’re wrapping up our 3-part conflict resolution series with a quick-and-dirty cheat sheet. Think of this episode as your prep guide before a hard conversation: the moves that give you and the other person the best sh...

Ever notice how much easier it is to point at a person and say, “YOU are the problem” ? Yeah, me too. But here’s the truth: people aren’t the problem—problems are the problem. And when we stop confusing the two, everything gets lighter, easier, and way more solvable. In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast , we’re going one layer deeper into conflict resolution and flipping the script: inst...

We are all changing. Sometimes we’re doing it on purpose- setting goals that require us to think and feel and act differently, goals that require us to evolve and grow. Sometimes we’re changing in reaction to the world and the people around us. The one thing we know for sure is that change is constant… and sometimes really hard. With change often comes conflict; with ourselves and with others. Sin...

With a cup of melted ice cream in my hand, I waited for a group of kids to explore a book store, staring in the window at the best sellers. That was the day I found an author whose prose gave me a week of  both mind-swooning entertainment and a jolting moment of reflection.  She wrote about giving our time and energy to things that fill us with passion and motivation. That fill our minds the momen...

Have you ever outgrown a version of yourself— and gotten stuck in that awkward liminal space between one identity and another?  In this episode of the Bloom Your Mind Podcast, I’m taking you on a wild ride that starts with a free-range hermit crab named Hermie (yes, really) and ends with a three step reflection to help you identify where you are in your identity shift. We’ll explore what it feels...

It’s not the big leaps that get you there—it’s the tiny, consistent steps that make your vision real. In this episode, Marie shares how the most successful creators, entrepreneurs, and change-makers all play the game of inches . Hear stories from the creation of the Bloom Room, from a client starting their first brick and mortar business, and from the world of parenting that show just how the game...

This episode is the joyful, slightly reckless little sister to episode 72, “The Freedom of a Hard No.” Because once we get clear on what doesn’t serve us…we open up all kinds of space in our brain, our schedule, and our sense of safety for possibilities and new ideas that can expand our life.  This past month I had a series of invitations from folks I didn’t know that well to visit them in differe...

I was with a group of friends, when one of them approached me and said “Your daughter just said something that blew my mind. She said that you told her that when she has a crush on someone, it’s just for her.”  “Yes,” I said, “I sure did tell her that- don’t you agree?” “Well I’ve never thought of it like this. She said that you told her that she can just have the feeling of a crush on someone, an...

After six months of an injury that was dramatically lowering the quality of my life, I gave up on doctors as the solution to my problem, and took matters into my own hands.  I started on a deep dive of research and exploration into blood sugar and inflammation, energy levels and functional movement. I read books, did interviews, and took courses with experts. I wore continuous glucose monitors and...

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Last week’s episode lifted the curtain on the five things that get in the way of people turning their ideas into real things. The top two reasons are hard core idea killers! We have a ready made solution for idea killer number one, and that solution is the Bloom Room. The idea killer is that people don’t have an accountability system to help them achieve their dream. Your success rate goes to 65%...

At a party last week, someone asked what I do for a living…which led to them asking a second question. “What is the thing that gets in the way most, when people are trying to make an idea real?”  What an amazing question. In this week’s episode, I’ll share the top six reasons that people fail at making their ideas into real things, and I’ll share a solution for each one to help you turn the obstac...

There is a goldmine of hacks and inspiration to learn from a specific population of people living in the world right now, and this episode is all about it.  Maybe because we grew up in the 90’s, when body image culture caused eating disorders in myself and half of the young people around me. We grew up in a world that thought it had been liberated by the movements of the 60’s and 70’s, but that ha...