Building Better Relationships at Home and Work with Angela and Patti

In this episode, Angela and Patti discuss the benefits of journaling to save relationships.  Journaling is a great way to connect to oneself, work out solutions when struggling with personal relationships or work problems.  Patti tells how she learned about journaling when she belonged to a women’s group many years ago. One of the members  Plynn Gutman, Certified Professional Coach, Reiki Master a...

In this episode, Angela and Patti discussed the fear of getting it wrong. How to accept we aren't always going to be perfect and that’s okay. Why are we so hard on ourselves when we make a mistake? Mistakes happen and owning up to them makes you a better person.  Hiding mistakes or blaming others isn’t good for your reputation or your relationships.  For some people the fear of making a mistak...

In today’s episode, Angela and Patti will be discussing the importance of work-life balance and having more play in daily life and relationships. Do you have work-life balance in your relationships? Are you spending valuable time with your family and close friends? Some say work-life balance is not achievable, while others say you can.  What is a balanced life really?  It is what you choose it to...

In today’s episode Angela and Patti will be talking about trusting your intuition and using it in your everyday life whether at home or work.  With all the talk going around about the world ending and let’s forget 2020.  Angela and Patti thought this would be a good topic to talk about.  Using your intuition to discern fiction from the truth.  There is so much false information and fear flying aro...

In this episode, Angela and Patti will discuss sensitivity towards others in the workplace and within daily personal life. Patti - How did this topic come about? (Patti) We were talking about a blog post I wrote called “What! Sensitivity Training?”   The idea came from watching the movie “Sensitivity Training”.  It caught my eye because it was about a life/business coach and her reluctant client....

In this episode, Angela and Patti's goal is always to discuss building better relationships, whether at home, work, and within the world we live in. Today's podcast is called "Choosing cultural awareness instead of racism". How did we decide to discuss this particular topic? Angela used to live in the USA, and she’s in Australia now where she grew up and been connecting with Patt...

In this episode, Angela and Patti will discuss change and how it can strengthen relationships. Let’s think about this - What are the benefits of being more grateful, thankful, light-hearted, friendly, kind, and positive? Here are some possible benefits: Positive thinking attracts good things to you. A positive outlook creates meaningful relationships. Being positive decreases depression and anxiet...

Today Angela and Patti will be discussing the hot topic of social media and how it can affect relationships. We are concerned about how social media can cause hurt feelings, depression, addiction to social media, and comparison. Here are some reflection questions: What makes people feel it’s okay to post things that they would most likely never say face to face or outside of social media?   Where...

Today Angela and Patti will be discussing handling moving forward with emotions and relationships after ovarian cancer, hysterectomy and menopause.  In previous Episodes 12 and 13 Angela shared her journey of recovering from ovarian cancer, hysterectomy and much more.  In this episode we will be sharing how to deal with relationships - with one-self and others after these life-changing events. Ang...

Angela:  How to set boundaries of time and space with the family. Patti: I encourage establishing a work schedule to help you move into a flow and getting things done; working from home can be challenging, especially when the family doesn’t understand your work demands, work obligations or time constraints with deadlines.   Having established set work hours. Communicating them to the family and fr...

In this episode, we shared about improving communication with your boss and not overworking yourself while working from home. With a lot of people working from home lately due to the virus, some find themselves working even more hours. How do you find balance?  This is a period of change in the way we work, and it doesn’t look like it is going to go back to the way it is - so more change is coming...

Welcome to Building Better Relationships with Angela and Patti. In this episode, we will share examples that stop relationships from being effortless and recommend changing those habits to becoming effortless relationships whether in the workplace or home life. Angela - Patti when I was dancing with a group in the early 2000’s, we used to explore movement that was effortless, and we always knew wh...

Tell us a little bit about the podcast title and Bending Your Knees?  We thought about this topic a while back, but I really thought about it when I had trouble bending my knees after recovering from surgery.  It was a shock after being flexible most of life I couldn’t bend the knees easily. Everything about surgery was a shock - but also in recovery, I experienced a lot of feelings not being able...

In this episode, Angela and Patti discuss - Just Be - Go Beyond Social Expectations that Influence Suicide. We feel this topic needs to be discussed openly and not avoided because it is uncomfortable. Lives matter. How did we get this topic title? Angela and I were talking about how there has been an increase in suicide. Over the years, and how the current situation with isolation and other factor...

In this episode, Angela and Patti will be discussing a topic request from a listener; Is A Family Member Putting A Guilt Trip On You? How to Deal With It!  Angela is the expert on this topic being a Love and Relationship Coach and coaches on family dynamics.    Let’s look at guilt. It is the inner ward process of beating yourself up through harsh thoughts. Nobody can put a guilt trip on you, but y...

This topic came from a listener, How To Get Along With Your Teenager! Patti started by asking these questions to the audience. Self-reflecting back to when you were a teenager.  Yes, I know it was different back then, but we still want the same things. Right? What did you want from your parents?  Understanding, Someone to Listen, Unconditional Love, Be Supported to Pursue What You Want in Life. Wh...

Welcome to Building Better Relationships with Angela and Patti. In this episode, Angela and Patti will be discussing surviving social isolation. We are all experiencing this first-hand due to the coronavirus epidemic. Angela and Patti will give some tips and tricks on how to deal with social distancing and surviving isolation. Our prayers and thoughts go out to everyone affected by this virus.   T...

Welcome to Building Better Relationships with Angela and Patti. In this episode, Angela and Patti discuss how a father can be understood, respected, accepted, and supported in isolation from the coronavirus situation.  Families being in isolation triggers a lot of uncomfortable feelings and stress. The stressors are being out of work, isolated, stressed about money, people being sad and angry, hav...

Welcome to Building Better Relationships at Home and Work with Angela and Patti.  Today, we will be discussing Part 2 of Angela’s healing journey after a near death experience and surviving from an aggressive cancer.  The breathing technique that Angela used was placing the right hand on the heart in the middle of the chest and the left hand on the upper belly. In  In Angela words as she is sharin...

Welcome to Building Better Relationships at Home and Work with Angela and Patti. Today, we will be discussing Angela’s journey for the past few months after surviving aggressive cancer and her healing transformation. Daily life can get interrupted at any moment like now with the (coronavirus). For Angela, the aggressive cancer was a chance to see how angry she was at life. The glamour and illusion...

Angela and Patti share communication tips at work.  How to stay in a job and manage difficult relationships.  How to ask yourself the right questions to determine how to manage your emotions.   A meme Patti saw - I’m sorry that your terrible behavior caused me to act out of character.  You should work on that!  What does this meme tell you? Take a look at yourself.   Is the relationship problem re...

Patti and Angela discuss using empathy in the coaching environment.  Patti talks about using empathy in group dynamics as a leader.  Angela discusses empathy within family and personal relationships.   Patti Oskvarek is a personal, leadership and work life balance coach. She is passionate about coaching supervisors and managers on becoming better leaders and creating a balanced fulfilling life. ww...

Patti talks about the benefits of taking time for yourself. Let's the brain rest Improves concentration Boosts creativity. It helps with problem-solving. Reflection time to better understand yourself and be a more pleasant person Creates relaxation and calmness. Spend time with family, spouse/partner, and give them our full attention without focusing and thinking of work. How do we do this? Wh...

What is the concept of Rediscovering Yourself and Rebirth? Each day is a new beginning.  The sunrises and the sunsets. Time to release the old and start again.  Wiping the slate clean.  It’s often difficult to release bad situations, relationships, or past regrets.  Rediscovering is about looking forward to the future and letting go of the past, which is holding us back on what we really want in l...

How Change Inspires Relationships! Patti's Thoughts: Change is good in the workplace because people don’t get bored and they learn new things.  It is easy to go through the motions if you do the same job function everyday.  People leaving the team and new people coming onto the team is good.  New ideas and new energy comes to the team.  New projects and different new challenges keeps everyone...