Bloom Your Mind

Imagine this, you're sitting on the couch, maybe you're reading something, maybe there's some music on, and all of a sudden you smell something burning. What do you do? Think about it for just a minute. Do you stand up and start screaming at the top of your lungs that we're all going to die? No. You stand up and you walk around to go check it out. Same thing goes for our emotio...

Many of us value creative brain space. It's the downtime that gives us the opportunity to think creatively, to innovate, and to reflect on what we want, what brings us joy and how we can contribute to the world at large in our own unique way. If we don't decide how to use our time, the people around us will choose for us.  This is exactly what happened to me in the last six months, by fa...

Sitting across the table from each other eating overpriced vegan food, my now husband sat down his fork, squared his massive shoulders at me, and smiled that earth stopping grin as he said, "Hey. I really like you." From that first date, to our current life 14 years later- filled with the efforts of navigating family building, community raising and meeting in the middle; it has been the...

Glen Tripp, the CEO of Galileo Innovation Camps, is the one who introduced me to design thinking, failure tolerance, and the type of leadership that brings out the best in individuals through the power of community. Without Glen, this podcast may never have come into being, and it's a true honor to tell his story here.  Glen has always said that life is most powerful when like minded people c...

Everything about Nick is just incredible, y'all! From his job as VP of Walt Disney to his index finger.  Nick is a cloud software architect by day, prosthetic finger architect by night. Nick's amazing story starts with a motorcycle accident and ends with him designing his own 3D-printed prosthetic finger, which he is sharing to the world. This episode is not only about overcoming physica...

Ever think that doing thought work sounds like...a lot of work? Think again.  95% of our thinking is automatic, which is a necessary function of the brain-  to filter through all the stimuli we walk through in a  day. We NEED to have automatic processing,  to help us do mundane things like drive our cars and pour a glass of water. In order to function...we need to have some things on lock. Get his...

I'm sure everybody has that experience when you're triggered or when you have a really strong emotion, you think you are that feeling. And that really happens for all of us. When we are turning an idea into a real thing, we are going to experience all different emotions whenever that goal is something that's challenging and new. We're going to have to allow uncomfortable feelin...

Here's the thing, every time you say yes to something, it means you're saying no to everything else. That is how we turn those shimmering ideas into concrete realities, by setting boundaries. In this episode, we will talk about the concept of a "hard no" and how this clear, compassionate form of rejection can keep us aligned with our goals. Where's your hard no, where&apos...

Compliments are like beachside stones—lovely but we want to be able to have that feeling of calm and peace that we get from the beach, with or without the stone. I use this metaphor to say that we can enjoy compliments that we experience, but we can't use them as a measuring stick for how we're doing. In this episode, I'm going to offer you four different angles to look at this from...

So, you want to turn your ideas into real things. I'm always with you on that! But this will require you to make requests, and when we make requests, we tend to do a couple things that make life a little bit harder for us. In this episode, I'm going to give you a new process, a new way of thinking about making requests to make life a little bit easier for you. You'll discover the st...

Telling a good story has the ability to move minds and shift perspectives, and this podcast is a powerful way that I’m paying that forward each week. So, in the spirit of impactful storytelling,  I’m sharing three stories that will ignite little “mood boosters” that I hope will help when you’re stuck at a low point, and lack confidence in the world around you as you go out there turning ideas into...

We've all been there—criticism that feels like a knockout punch, leaving us questioning our path and purpose. But criticism doesn't have to be a synonym for defeat. Today, I want to give us a refresh and a new four-step process to help guide you through taking any feedback gracefully and putting you back in the driver's seat so you don't feel like it's this tidal wave wash...

You have to give yourself the same love and support that you'd give somebody that you really care about, who has an idea they want to make real. You might not know what yours is, but we all have things that are little twinkles of possibility in our life or something we could do differently or something we could literally create and put out there. That's what today's episode is about...

What does potting plants and washing dishes have to show us about slowing down and being more present? What's the dimension that adds more appreciate and joy, and what does this have to do with relationships? In this episode, I'm laying out some ideas from my personal "idea factory" about what it means to create ground rules with a "kickoff"conversation or meeting, an...

What do you think of when you hear the word grounding?  When you feel your nerves creep in, does it energize you or does it make it harder to pull off what you want to pull off? Are you absorbing the stress around you like a sponge? If we think that we're not qualified or that we might mess up, let’s wring out that negativity together with three grounding techniques that will help you manage...

During a mountain retreat lunch, I received a piece of feedback that would catalyze a huge transformation in my life. It began with a simple observation—my use of the word “right” at the ends of my sentences—and blossomed into a realization of my people-pleasing tendencies. Through my story, we're going to talk about how to reflect on your own patterns of people pleasing. And I will offer som...

One of the number one requests that I've received over the past few months is to share tools for making decisions, and how to break free from the frustration of indecision. In today's episode, I'm going to share a special framework that will give you the clarity you need to break free from indecision, and it's a process that I personally use when I find myself in this confusing...

This episode is about the concept of "strategic optimism," but to create this, it all starts with love because optimism and love can be interchangeable, in how we bring our loving awareness to the way we perceive the world around us, and how that loving awareness is something that we cultivate in ourselves. In this episode, we'll talk about 3 important areas which are necessary to c...

While I have done a bunch of episodes on "blue sky thinking" and "future tripping,"  I haven't really talked about a very straight-forward way to identify when you have a challenge in your life, and how to find a way to resolve it. I'll show you how to start from the problem or issue you face, and guide you through 5 simple steps that start with the challenge to brain...

Today is a very special episode. It’s a tool that I use all day … every day, and it will help you to achieve any goal.  This special tool is a way of thinking that connects to my areas of expertise in coaching leaders, and life coaching. It also applies to design thinking, to writing, to art, parenting and the physical body. It's one of those tools that will apply to just about everything in...

I talk a lot about turning ideas into real things and sometimes want to escape the part that's happening now because we think it's going to be so much better later on. This is what we call hedonistic adaptation. In this episode, I give you three questions and a few resources to help you when you find yourself having a hedonistic brain, and instead being here now, in the dynamic presence...

For many of us, when we get so attached to the shiniest, best version of something we want to do, sometimes we never actually act on it. So instead of loving the things we're working on and the work we're doing, we sort of stay in discontent with what we have and who we are. Today's episode is all about the balance between possibility and presence, between holding a glimmering ideal...

I love a good celebration. I chimed in the New Year wearing my red bell bottoms and danced my butt off and ... it's a a fun reason to glittery things too! But what I want to talk about today is why I don't make resolutions, and what's more lasting instead.  I like to pay attention to the ways that I'm "life-ing" and evolving every day. For me, it's an everyday pr...

Today I'm chatting with Wei Wang, who shares her experiences in my group coaching program, The Bloom Room. She's been such an inspiration to me and the group, and I wanted to have her on the show to share the inspiring work she's done, as well as her insights, and how she approaches everything she does with authenticity, generosity, and a desire to make the world a better place. One...

We all have the potential become illuminators. What exactly is an illuminator you ask? They are those folks, that when you walk away from talking to them, you just feel so dang awesome. You feel better about yourself, you feel seen, you feel witnessed. Illumination doesn't have to be the person saying you're amazing. Illumination can be the light of their attention and interest and they...