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In this episode, I'm sharing why it's possible to do both too much and too little when it comes to your brain health. If you’re feeling burnt out and just want to sit on your couch until this year is over, I’ll walk you through how to get your brain out of this funk and move towards your goals. Your brain loves routine and consistency, which is why this year has been hard for so many peo...

In this episode we’re talking about how to find the courage to say what’s on your mind, and stand up for yourself. Listen in to find your voice and stop worrying what everyone else thinks! Two fears usually stand in our way of speaking up: the fear of rejection and the fear of embarrassment. When those fears creep in it’s easy to convince yourself that your idea doesn’t matter, and so you hold bac...

Today, we’ll talk about how your brain learns and why your biological memory systems can help you reach your goals or hold you back from success. Stay tuned and I’ll share one strategy to use those memory systems to your advantage and help your brain move toward success! There’s a famous patient in neuropsychology named Henry Molaison who changed how we understand memory. Henry suffered from sever...

Today, I will share the two responses we can have when we react to pressure: the chicken little response and the ostrich response. Knowing your brain’s default response to stress can help you feel more in control. Listen in to find out how to keep your brain back on track to be more successful under pressure. Every day we are faced with stressors. When we are faced with uncertainty, we tend to fal...

Today, I’m going to share my Top 10 Tips for Boosting Energy! If you feel like you’re running out of steam by the end of the day, and wish you had enough energy and motivation to do what you want to do, then listen in to this episode. We all have times of the day where our energy and motivation starts to shrink. Remember that your brain has limited resources, and we often don’t realize that we’ve...

Today I’m sharing tips on how to point your brain toward success. Learn to reframe self-doubt and shift your brain towards confidence and the one phrase to look for that signals your brain you're slipping into doubt mode. Beliefs impact our actions without you even noticing! One belief that develops in our minds is self-doubt. Our brains developed specific fears to keep our ancestors safe but...

Today, we are going to dive into efficiency! Over the last year, I’ve juggled starting this podcast, my new business, and being a mom to a toddler. Working from home gives us extra multi-tasking and added responsibilities to make it all work! Remember that your brain only has a limited amount of resources, and you need to take time to complete each of your daily tasks. Time is the most limited res...

Today, I want to share a secret strategy that athletes, musicians, and successful business people use to train their brain. Stay tuned to learn how you can use this strategy in your own life to boost your confidence. In previous episodes, I’ve talked about how much I love to watch the Olympics. I’ve always been fascinated by how athletes have trained themselves to be focused on their success. They...

Today, I’m talking about how the words you say impact your confidence and the four words you need to banish from your vocabulary. I’ll give you practical tips on how to retrain your brain to ditch these confidence-destroying words. The words and the language we use play a huge role in how we see ourselves and the world around us. Our brains evolved around language. As a matter of fact, language is...

Today, I’ll be walking you through one of my favorite confidence-building techniques - what I call the “Confidence Ladder.” Listen to this episode to learn how to start your own ladder, and start facing your fears. Confidence is a skill, just like learning to walk, and we learn best through practice. Specific experiences build our confidence, but others will tear it down. Our confidence starts out...

If you know all the reasons you want to change, but you've been struggling to take that first step towards a new habit or goal, this is the episode for you! I'll walk you through one, easy, simple to use a strategy that will kickstart your motivation and train your brain for a change. I've always loved books, and I keep a stack on my nightstand, waiting to be read. Although it'...

In this episode, we are diving into two things that hold you back from change: fear and comfort. At the end of this episode, I’ll share with you a pivotal strategy to use almost every day in many different situations to create a pathway for your brain to change a bad habit. I’ve never been a morning person, and I don’t schedule activities before work. I often struggle to get out of bed when the al...

In this episode, I'll talk about how to find the confidence to say "No!" and how being afraid to hurt someone's feelings, or being afraid to look bad may be burning you out. Recently I said “yes” to a work project that I didn’t want.  As soon as I said yes, I felt bad about agreeing to the project, and as the deadline got closer I started to dread the assignment. Do you find th...

In this episode, I'll explain the reasons why being a perfectionist can burn you out, and the one question you need to ask yourself to determine if your inner perfectionist is creeping up on you. You may have figured out that I'm a bit of a perfectionist myself. At a minimum, I'm a bit overprepared. Listen in to hear the story of all my lists for my wedding, and how I still almost f...

In this episode, I'm sharing tips on how to create more energy for your day, and how to prevent your brain from getting into habits that are draining your mental resources. You’ll learn the four patterns that consume your energy and leave you exhausted at the end of your day. When you get up in the morning, do you feel energized and ready to take on your day? As your day progresses, does your...

In this episode, I'll give you tips about how you can stop taking the actions of others too personally. I also talk about why you want to avoid turning yourself into vanilla ice cream just to be liked.  So often, we think we are mind readers, and we know why another person is acting or behaving a certain way. The trouble with mind-reading is we don't actually know what someone else is th...

In this episode, I'll give you tips about how to fight back against mom guilt and feel less burnt out at the end of your day. For me, my mom guilt kicks in when my toddler, Allison, asks me to stay and play for just a few more minutes when I'm walking out the door to work. I feel that punch to my stomach, wishing I could stay and play with my daughter and the myriad of emotions that spir...

Have you ever come home from vacation and said you needed a vacation from your vacation? In this episode, I'll walk you through how to take a vacation minus the stress of preparing for your adventure. Vacations can be stressful. Even if it’s a fun trip, you're in a new place and your brain is working extra hard to stay organized. All the extra mental effort that goes into organizing and...

Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed trying to do it all? As a working mom with big career dreams I know what it’s like to not have enough time in the day, and to lack the skills and confidence to reach your goals. I have spent years understanding how our brains work, and learning what holds us back from having the courage to reach our dreams. Each week I’ll be sharing practical strategies...

Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed trying to do it all? As a working mom with big career dreams I know what it’s like to not have enough time in the day, and to lack the skills and confidence to reach your goals. I have spent years understanding how our brains work, and learning what holds us back from having the courage to reach our dreams. Each week I’ll be sharing practical strategies...

Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed trying to do it all? As a working mom with big career dreams I know what it’s like to not have enough time in the day, and to lack the skills and confidence to reach your goals. I have spent years understanding how our brains work, and learning what holds us back from having the courage to reach our dreams. Each week I’ll be sharing practical strategies...

When you wake up in the morning, do you feel rested and ready to tackle the day? Do you start to feel low on energy by mid-afternoon, like you need that extra infusion of caffeine? If you’re not feeling energized all day, you may not be getting enough sleep.  While it might not seem so bad to burn the midnight oil to finish a project now and again, those late nights add up. So do all those nights...

Today on The Bold Life podcast I'll be sharing two ways you can develop confidence when public speaking. Public speaking is terrifying for many of us. 25% of people report a fear of public speaking. And you don’t have to be speaking in front of a big group of people to bring on this anxiety and fear. Speaking in front of a group of co-workers or leading a group discussion can cause our stomac...

Are you a working mom who doesn't feel like you have enough time in your day to reach your dreams and goals? I've spent years learning how our brains work and what holds us back from having the courage to achieve our dreams. Each week I'll be sharing practical strategies to help you to find more time in your day, build your confidence, fight back against mom guilt, and reach your go...

This week on The Bold Life podcast, I'm talking about battery chargers and battery drainers. How certain people fill us with positive energy, but others drain our energy and prevent us from reaching our goals.  I’m sharing why I love to watch the Olympics (I’m glued to my TV for two weeks while they’re on), and a story from the 1996 Olympic Games where a young woman named Kerri Strug inspired...