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Many nuances around ownership and responsibility lead to misunderstanding both within ourselves and with other people. The confusion of expectations runs wild. Where are we overstepping our responsibility? Where are we not taking on enough? Jeff and Tatsu explore a broader empowering perspective that helps to simplify our relationship to ownership and responsibility.  Ownership from a burdensome p...

Are you more often practicing authentic or inauthentic self-expression daily? How do you know which? Expanding awareness of our past conditioning and current identities will point to ways we are showing up inauthentically. The more we learn to authentically express ourselves everywhere every day, the more passionately and meaningfully we can engage with life. Jeff and Tatsu begin to scratch the su...

Fair vs. unfair is a paradigm greatly influenced by past conditioning. How tightly we cling to either stance greatly impacts our way of being and experience of the situation. Clinging onto this paradigm typically leads to disempowerment because it encourages judgment (of self and others) and no one lives a life that is deemed 100% fair anyway. We can drop the fair vs. unfair paradigm completely, i...

Why start a business of your own? The reasons vary from person to person. But anyone who started their own business or is considering to do so probably felt that there’s more to life than just working a regular job. Entrepreneurship is a journey of self-realization and creating an alternate lifestyle that we weren’t taught in school. The world has changed significantly over the last 30 years and a...

The lens through which you see the world shapes your reality. In coaching, we refer to this lens as context or paradigm. Understanding our contexts, therefore, is one of the most powerful practices we can take on throughout our lives. Yet, many people fall too attached to any number of contexts that no longer serve their highest potential. Whenever we are feeling stuck, frustrated, angry, sad, anx...

Being intentional about boundary setting can be crucial to success in all areas of life. There are so many distractions in today’s digital world in addition to rampant codependency and lack of self-love. Are the boundaries that you set adequate for reaching your highest potential? In this episode, we dive into various nuances around boundary setting and its importance. People pleasing and neglecti...

Completion is a process that involves reflection, expression of emotions, acknowledgment, responsibility, and truly letting go. Many of us are conditioned to “move on” prematurely which results in carrying burdensome energy into the future. Ultimately, this burdensome energy negatively impacts all of our decisions and relationships. In this episode, we scratch the surface of the concept of complet...

What is intuition? How do we develop a deeper connection to it? Intuition is like our own unique compass to navigate life, but we typically have little or no guidance on how to listen to it. This topic will be more widely discussed globally in the coming years as people better understand its power and shift out of living a life with which they are unaligned. In this episode, we discuss some high-l...

Grand vision first, then goals. We often hear the micro emphasis on goals without ample reflection on the macro big vision. This may perpetuate the lack of clarity around our purpose and deeper Why. Visioning and goal setting is a deeply thoughtful powerful process. Even so, we regularly block this process with daily distractions and limiting beliefs. Today, we have a better opportunity than ever...

Is patience important? Why? We generally are not taught the intrinsic value of patience throughout our childhood. This conditioning impacts us significantly into adulthood. Understanding and embodying patience are very different. Patience is one of the most powerful qualities that a human can embody in this lifetime. Disempowering relationship to patience Patience with self and others Being lit up...

Although external motivation is great, it keeps us reaching outside of ourselves in order to keep it going. This tends to be exhausting, unsustainable, and disempowering in the long run. Increasing intrinsic positive motivation and depending less on external motivation helps to create a healthier and empowered life. We discuss nuances between internal vs. external motivation, and positive vs. nega...

Thoughts about the past and future are seemingly unavoidable and ironically the reason why fear exists beyond physical self-preservation. Most of us probably spend too much time being influenced by thoughts of the past and future. So, how engaged are we in the present moment without analysis? We discuss some interesting dynamics around grappling with the past, present, and future. Looking at the p...

How we relate to risk greatly impacts the quality and depth of our happiness. At what cost are we taking or not taking risk? We discuss our relationship to risk both empowering and disempowering. Risk aversion is situational General negative association with the word risk Perspective on risk from fear or inspiration The risk of marriage Logic is not really logical Being aware of our internal disce...

A negative and positive definition of leverage can both be found in the dictionary. How confusing is that? Regardless, we get to decide how we define it and empower it. We discuss the scarcity mindset around leverage and how it hinders growth. Growing up with a negative relationship with the word leverage Creating an empowering perspective of leverage Resourcefulness and collaboration Leveraging t...

Loyalty typically carries a positive meaning. However, it is worth taking a closer look at our definition to confirm that it is aligned with our highest selves. Otherwise, our relationship to loyalty could actually be hindering our ability to build ourselves and our relationships. We discuss various nuances of loyalty that may be empowering or disempowering. Experiencing disloyalty and getting hur...

We live in a society that has many cues to reinforce a scarcity mindset. This teaches us to compare ourselves with others, often through disempowering judgment. We can break out of this cycle if we choose to. We discuss connections between a scarcity mindset, self-judgment, judgment of others, and lose/lose situations. And we emphasize the fulfillment of uplifting each other which leads to win/win...

We are generally conditioned to be transactional in our relationships. The phrase “give and take” is a prime example of this. But we are not taught that this is a trap. We discuss the subtleties of the give-and-take paradigm. A person’s beliefs around this paradigm will greatly hinder or enhance the depth of relationships. Relating to give and take as keeping score The trap of the give-and-take pa...

Identity is tricky because much of our identity was conditioned from an early age. Identity is an ongoing evolutionary process. It is important to regularly discard and/or redefine those that no longer serve our highest potential. We discuss how our identities have evolved over time and how we now prioritize our identities based on core values. Awareness of our identities, some we like and some we...

Connection is an increasingly important part of life to expand opportunities and fulfill our life’s purpose. Our perspective on and vision for connecting with others will greatly impact the depth and number of meaningful relationships we create. We discuss the evolution of our mindset around connection and the value connection brings to our lives now. Why connect with people? Blocks to connection...

Self-care is often overlooked, especially when life gets busier with distractions. Being intentional about self-care and understanding its importance is paramount for living a healthy and full life. We discuss the impact on ourselves and others of establishing a foundational self-care routine. Self-care is far more significant than just a means to get you through the day, week, or to your next vac...

Building relationships is one of the most important skills we can learn as human beings. It starts with building a deep relationship with ourselves. Who do we authentically want to become aside from societal conditioning? We discuss the importance of building relationships and shifting from surface level to intentional deep meaningful relationships. Quality relationships provide access to limitles...

Trust is a key core value in any strong relationship, team, or organization. Noticing our relationship to trust reveals our ability to build deep, meaningful relationships. We share our relationship to trust and mindset around cultivating more trust in our lives. Can you love control and also be trusting? Lack of trust because of fear Trusting others starts with self-trust Easier to give others mo...

Network Marketing (aka Multi-Level Marketing) is one of the most misunderstood industries today. People’s self-image, ego, and ability to discern what’s personally aligned plays a fundamental role in success in this industry. We share our journeys toward an empowering relationship with network marketing and our discernment process. Myths around network marketing and multi-level marketing businesse...

In a world of comparison, it’s easy to default to a disempowered relationship to our bodies. Clearly, our bodies aren’t just simple functional machines created to do our mind’s bidding. They’re much more intelligent. We discuss cultivating a relationship with our bodies that integrates our entire being. Body guilt and shame Expectation vs. reality Treating my body as a slave to my mind and ignorin...

The family dynamic is often muddled with judgement and expectations. How we define family and relate to it is a choice. We discuss some myths, patterns, and stereotypes of family dynamics. Lack of appreciation of time with family Definition of family evolves Blood is thicker than water? When times are tough, who has your back? Challenges with relationship to family Seeing eachother as who we are i...