Business Finances Through the Lens of Your Natural Strenghts - Chaos to Peace with Conny

My guest Steven Rudolph has been on a 21-year quest to India, where he uncovered 5,000-year-old secrets to self-understanding and achieving one's potential . He then took those principles and crafted them into an easy-to-use, enjoyable program called Feed Your Tigers. He says: When you don't feed your tigers, they'll eat you. In this conversation we talk about how Steve figured out...

Today I talk about whether or not a junk drawer is a good thing in your home and office or a bad thing because I recently came across an article about organizing our junk drawers.  So can you have a junk drawer and does it have to be organized?  Find the full show notes here: https://connygraf.com Ways to connect with me: Website: https://connygraf.com Connect with me on LinkedIn Get to know the m...

Clutter has so many negative effects on us, especially our health and in particular our stress levels. This is backed by science and several studies as you will hear in this episode. Clearing the clutter is therefore really an act of self-care and self-love, and it is also a thoughtful and powerful approach of self-discovery and self-development. This is actually a rewind (or replay or how ever yo...

We are talking about how we can access and clear emotional clutter with a technique called Tapping or EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique.  My guest is Lauren Fonvielle,  she is an energy healer, certified EFT & Reiki Practitioner as well as a yoga and meditation teacher.  Lauren says: "Our underlying beliefs and emotions—whether or not we're aware of them—can affect our happiness in li...

Today I want to talk about unfinished business, a category of clutter that most people don't  even recognize as clutter.  Unfinished business holds us back, it's hard to move forward with clarity and inspiration when you have loose ends. Taking care of unfinished business sets the stage for success and here is how you can do it in a few minutes a day. Find the full show notes here: https...

Who do you tell yourself you are?   It’s one thing to say "I want to achieve the goal of being organized and intentional and in charge of my finances" but it’s something very different to say " I’m the type of person who IS organized and IS in charge of my finances. " Staying in an identity conflict will keep you stuck or get you to take one step forward and then two steps back...

This is the From Chaos to Peace podcast where you learn how a few minutes a day keeps the chaos away and how clutter is so much more than you think.  Today I am talking with Daniel Sih about making space in the digital age. Daniel is the co-founder of Spacemakers®, a productivity consulting group for busy leaders and the creator of best-selling productivity courses such as Email Ninja, List Assass...

If you listen for a while to my podcast you've heard me say many times that we all have some clutter, having some clutter is being human.  Today I want to talk about a kind of clutter that I actually struggle with and that is  information clutter and specifically 'just in case information' and 'just in case learning'. I explain what I mean with information clutter and I ta...

Today I talk about how powerful words are and how we can actually do what we want to do instead of procrastinating if we are more intentional about our words. One word in particular is a dream and goal killer, not just when it comes to clearing clutter, and that word is "should" Find the full show notes here: https://connygraf.com Ways to connect with me: Website: https://connygraf.com C...

Clearing clutter is ultimately about making decisions, as you might know, I say all clutter is unmade decisions,  so learning how to make authentic decisions comes in very helpful.  My guest is Marin Laukka, she's a decision coach and speaker with a Master's Degree in positive developmental psychology. As the business owner of Yes&, she passionately supports women to clarify what the...

There is one specific reason why letting go of things and beliefs is so hard and as a result why we hang on to and are attached to our clutter.  In this episode I talk about what the endowment effect is, how it shows up in your life, and what specific question you can ask yourself while clearing your clutter to figure out what to keep and what to let go of. Find the full show notes here: https://c...

Bobby's emails have built a cult following because they're addictive and fun to read. Now he has distilled his email wisdom into a snark-filled book titled Email Marketing That Doesn't Suck   and of course his book reads like his emails... his personality jumps off the page as he makes an otherwise dry subject entertaining to learn. Meet Bobby Klinck, a Harvard Law Grad turned entre...

Looking at financial clutter through the lens of clutter clearing, we realize, this is a difficult category of clutter. For starters, we can’t just ask ourselves the questions we would ask ourselves with physical clutter like " do I love it?" , "when did I use it last?" , "when will I use it next? ”  Another roadblock is, a lot of people are so scared of finances but that&...

To start your Journey from Chaos to Peace requires some clearing of mental clutter and a shift of thinking. In this episode I talk about what to shift your thinking away from and towards to. This is short and sweet but is the linch pin to any progress and I have to do that myself every.single.day. Find the blog post here: https://connygraf.com/podcast/121 Ways to connect with me: Website: https://...

My guest is Solita Roberts, and her focus is to empower us to love and accept who we are, including our body, our personality, and our individual style and in turn accepting who other people are, including their body, personality and individual style.   What does it mean to have an inclusive workspace in relation to how we dress?   How our clothes are so much more than us buying some shirts and pa...

I have compared weigh loss with clearing clutter before, also because in both situations most people are in a hurry and want quick change and fast results. They fall for crash diets but then ending up gaining the weight back, or they spent huge effort, energy and time to declutter an area just to helplessly watch the clutter creep back in. Today I share with you one sentence that will help you sol...

What is a good leader? And how do we become good leaders, especially as women?  My guest is Terri-Ann Richards and her belief is simple: to achieve the ultimate of personal success it's an inside out job. You need to start with you.  We talk about  how to become our own leader first Terri-Ann's definition of a good leader reasons why people don't reach their goals what to put in pla...

With the start of spring in the northern hemisphere and fall in the southern hemisphere It's the perfect time to answer a question that I get quite a bit: "but Conny is decluttering not wasteful? When we get rid of stuff  that's wasting stuff, isn't it? And I don't want to be a wasteful person." Listen in and hear my thought provoking perspective on it. Find the full...

Overcome your energetic blocks through the awareness of your unique Human Design and get energetically aligned with your authentic self.  My guest is Miranda Mitchell, she's an Energetic Alignment Coach & Human Design Specialist who helps leaders in their industry create more impact with sustainability and ease. We talked about:  What is Human Design?  How Human Design made Miranda's...

What is abundance?  Did you know that abundance is the natural state?  We can have the head in the clouds and still need to have the feet firmly on the ground to be able to take actions. And that's what I love about my guest, she's not just talking about abundance, she's also giving practical tips on how to recognize that the abundance is already all around us.  Kai Hernandez is a M...

Despite my best intentions and setting that goal for myself several times over a period of 5 years to publish a weekly blog post,  I didn't manage to be consistent. I started on February 1st, 2015 with my first blog post, the second weeks later in March, then 3 in April but afterward none until August and it would go like this for 5 years.  I just never managed to be consistent,  I tried and...

This is an episode I wanted to do for a long time and somehow it never seemed the right time. Even recording it I had to overcome all kinds of obstacles but here we are finally. Astrology helps you get to know yourself better, and when you know yourself better you know better what approach to take, what actions to take. You also have more compassion for yourself and realize why you were not succes...

In this episode I am being interviewed by Jen Anderson from Accomplist. Jen had been on my podcast before, check out episode 64 .  A couple of weeks ago she reached out and asked me if she could interview me for her Facebook community, I said of course yes and Jen agreed that I publish this interview also on my podcast and Youtube channel. Jen says she's a Professional Imperfectionist who hel...

As (female) entrepreneurs we often struggle to create visibility on social media, build a personal brand and get featured in media outlets, or podcasts... in short, it seems hard to get visibility. That's why today I have one of Australia's Top 10 Female Entrepreneurs and a Women to Watch, Jemimah Ashleigh as my guest and Jemimah is the founder of The Visibility Lab .  We are talking abo...

Most people give up on their New Years resolutions or their goals by February. In this episode I share with you that the New Moon in Aquarius can get you back on track with unconventional approaches and unique outside the box ideas. Listen in if you don't want to join the 68% of people who don't achieve their goals because they abandon them before February 1st. Find the full shownotes he...