Decision Ease

a) This episode was inspired by conversations on TikTok — come hang out with me if you’re over there!   @thedecisioncoach And b) if you’re getting any value out of this podcast, I would love love to hear about it. If you have the bandwidth & inclination, you can   l eave a rating and review   to let me know what’s resonating, what you’re trying out, what’s helpful. (Thank y...

If the idea that "You don't have to be productive all the time" sounds scary AND wonderful, this episode is for you. Hard-working high-achievers learn the mindset that  To work is to succeed & earn value...To rest is to quit, fail and basically be worthless. It's no suprise that, at some point, we get sick of this mindset and realize we'd love to rest AND get stuff done&nbs...

There's a LOT of potential in the year ahead.  But diving straight into a Goal Game Plan can set you up for burnout & misalignment if you don't take the time to reflect on the year so far! This guided exercise is designed to help you reflect & reset in a structured, intentional,  doable  way. Download your free REFLECT + RESET GUIDE here (or visit kirstenparker.com/60) Have...

If you're a hard-working high-achiever who's "a bit too hard on yourself"...you may be talking yourself out of one or more of these 4 things on a daily basis without even knowing it.  Which matters because these 4 things are VITAL to a fulfilling, whole, happy, authentic life.🚨 And we can get in the habit of automatically depriving ourselves of them. This episode walks you through how t...

How much of your daily frustration comes from dealing with stuff not being the way you want? 😤 95...maybe 96% minimum?  This is real! At some point, it stops mattering if it's a broken dishwasher or a severed finger (not to be gross) — but   frustration   can become the go-to reaction to almost ANYTHING not going "our way." And while this often seems justified (or at least una...

This week, we're NOT talking about how to catch up on the mountains of stuff you're behind on. No time management — No delegating — No uber-efficient productivity plans. In reality, those are all Tylenol. 💊 Sometimes they help make the pain go away.  But they never address the  root cause   of the problem. Which means it has full permission to keep showing up, f...

Are you paving your own path?  Running a business or side-hustle, working multiple jobs, crafting your own career?? This is the episode for you! I talk with two clients who've both changed careers and are now  in charge  of their own work — and how they each use Coaching to improve their work AND their lives. Kelsea is a Co-Founder of a Tech Startup, and Diana is a Voiceov...

Are you walking around your life with ridiculously high expectations of yourself in  everything   you do?  My guess is...probably. 😬 'Cause even though it's exhausting to always go "above & beyond" - that's also how you've created a TON of success for yourself.   So how do you manage it? How do you balance "high standards" with "I want to actually rest sometimes and not bu...

We think about guilt in a couple of  backwards   ways. Either we feel it ALL the time, and think we "should" / deserve to... Or we think we're WRONG for feeling it at all, because we "should know better" and this is a silly habit to have as a grown adult.  I vote NO to both options. You do not owe it to the universe (or yourself) to feel guilty 1900 times a day. You simply aren't st...

We hate people-pleasing. (Duh.) And yet, it happens SO often — Sometimes we don't even notice 'til we're out the door and down the street, when it hits us: Wait did we just agree to something we have  zero   interest in doing?? (...for example...😉) That's when a quick fix like today's tool comes in SUPER handy. If you can notice yourself thinking "Is it ok to (upset...disappoint......

What does is actually take to "believe in yourself"? Besides the obvious stuff... Do objectively amazing stuff, which other people call "amazing" out loud! Truth is, "objectivity" has little to do with self-belief. (We can talk ourselves out of ANY achievement...I know you get it!) And external validation - while delicious - only goes so far! At some point, we have to do the hard work of SELF-BELI...

Why do we not celebrate ourselves? From GIANT accomlishments down to seemingly "teensy" wins (that - obvs - are, in reality, a huge deal...)...Well, because we think:  It's not good / big / impressive / __________ enough yet:  Example! Our podcast is at around 4500 downloads right now. Surely good or REAL podcasts are supposed to have like 45,0000 by now though, right? Shouldn't we...

There aren't many things powerful enough to make/break your entire story of "How's life?" TIME is one of them. Everything in your work, relationships, health, baking experiments, ALL of it...could look like it's  comin' up roses  from the outside. But if you don't feel like you're using your TIME well, it kinda all feels like crap. (Right?) I wanna help you stop feeling like you're ...

Aight. You need to make a decision. You've acknowledged that you don't wanna regret it.  Now what?  Awareness is key here: Understanding what EXACTLY you're afraid of is what's going to let you take confident next steps forward.  I know - it's completely unpleasant to think about what you might feel & what might "go wrong" - but in this episode I show you how to think through al...

When you think about what gets in the way of confident decisions, FEAR OF REGRET has to be at the top of the list.  It's easy for this fear to become a regular roadblock in your decision-making process, too.  Here's what I needed to do, to take back control of my decision-making process and stop experiencing such panic about "what I might regret" in the future: Practically addressing fea...

How much do *dinner decisions* stress you out? 😱 We know they're not that  hard ...and YET, they can cause so much chaos! They certainly did for me until I decided this was officially a problem worth SOLVING. The same thing was evident with my clients too. As soon as we started scanning for Decision Fatigue, the conversation always ended up at  dinner ! So today, I'm walk...

Jackie de Crinis is an expert in stress management, overthinking and JOY. (Already hooked? ME TOO.) And she knows what she's talking about. With a background of 30+ years as a Hollywood Producer, working for the biggest name companies on high profile shows, she has  ample   experience with STRESS. "There's this concept of 24 hours in a day , and you're like 'Well I have to sleep a FEW ho...

What do you do if you find yourself Decision Fatigued? Answering this can bring up all kinds of overwhelming options like "get rid of half your wardrobe" or "hire a million people to delegate stuff to." While sometimes solutions like that are helpful, more often than not, what you really need is to approach your decision-making differently. In this episode, you're getting Shortcut M...

What even IS Decision Fatigue? We care because understanding it = how we solve it better & faster. 😉 I used to hear about the concept of Decision Fatigue and think  sure, that makes sense in theory ...but then I'd generally assume one of two things: a) It didn't apply to me.  - After all, I'm not over here makin' life-or-death decisions all day long. I'm overthinking   "dinner"...

HOKAY, you've got a potentially challenging conversation or situation coming up.  How do you prepare for it? Normal Tuesday? There's a good chance you dread it up until the second it happens, mince your words & fumble through it, have an awkward-at-best experience, and then move on not *completely* in love with what just happened. I propose this instead: Conscious Conversation Prep (...

Obbbbbbviously most of us are putting more on our daily plates than we can logistically, energetically or just like, humanly handle — can we agree on that? 🙋‍♀️ But Kirsten...I legit have 17,000 things to do AND I'm super capable & hate B- work, so I feel like these are still fair expectations. I know.  That's the problem. 😑 For a lot of our lives, pushing ourselves to our breaking...

Want to love your work more (...or at all)? Ever struggled with the Inner Critic?? This episode's for you, my friend! Winn Clark, my own former coach and now friend-for-life (she knows, it's not weird...), drops in this week to give you some BIG stuff to think about: 👉 How to create  lasting   change by changing the narrative you're living in "So much of how you show up in the worl...

What even is an "ideal life"? Turns out, this huge-ish question is super worthwhile to ask, and  Brazen   Coaches Calley & Valerie are here to help us   answer! 😁 This interview is for you if you have any kind of job / life dissatisfaction OR you just love the idea of feeling good about the direction you're taking yourself . We talk about: Calley's career pi...

Do you think of yourself as a "confident person"? Or is that a feeling that ebbs and flows, depending on the day or situation? What if we could   stop   thinking about confidence like it was this measurable, liquid thing? Like "it's either there or it's not...there's either a lot or a little..." 🤔 The truth is, the way I used to think about Confidence was completely all-or-nothing. And...

If you're getting to the end of each day and - no matter what has or hasn't "gotten done" or "gone well" - you feel disappointed in yourself...this episode is for you! This is one of the most disheartening and exhausting funks to be in (ask me how I know) and I want to give you a reliable way OUT of it.  Listen to find out:  The   key misunderstandings   at play when you're in...