Get Big Out Loud with Kari: Living the Complex, Funny, & Beautiful Ride of Life

In a society that runs on goals, achievement, and status it can be difficult to stop all the ‘doing’ and appreciate the ‘being’. Specifically, to acknowledge where you are on the journey while at the same time appreciating the progress you’ve made and how far you have come. For many of us, it is difficult to recognize and appreciate our progress because we are so focu...

Some people are calling this current time of change, the ‘New Normal’ however navigating it can feel anything but normal. What do we do when things that used to feel normal don’t feel that way anymore? Can we really go back to the way things were? Even if we could, would we want to? In this episode of ‘Get Big Out Loud’ we’ll explore how we are reevaluating the...

The news is full of some awful things right now and we can find ourselves overwhelmed and triggered by the constant access we have to information. In a time of heightened emotions and very tangible stressors, how do we safeguard our mental health? How can we cultivate our capacity to be resilient? And how do we cope? In this episode of Get Big Out Loud well talk about building resilience during di...

There is so much striving in our goal-oriented, achievement-driven culture that it can be difficult to mentally and physically stop and be in the present. Many of us are chasing a future where we are waiting for certain things to happen so that we can finally feel happy, worthy, successful, satisfied, or beautiful. However the closer we get to the future, the more elusive those feelings seem. In t...

Do you ever knock on wood to keep something bad from happening or cross your fingers when you want something good to happen? Do you make a wish when you blow out candles and have an item of clothing or a thing that you consider ‘lucky’. All of these ideas are connected to a term called ‘magical thinking’. In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we’ll explore how magical t...

When we create something and put it out into the world it can cause us to be fearful of judgment, rejection, or embarrassment. We can worry ourselves into not trying anything new, not taking risks, and not expressing ourselves. Living on purpose is not only having a passion for something, but it is also having the courage to pursue it. In this episode of Get Big Out Loud, we’ll talk about re...

Part of our human struggle is to know when to hold on and when to let go. This struggle is usually centered in our belief system and periodically that system needs an audit. In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we’ll talk about holding on to the things that help us build a strong personal identity, make us feel stable, and bring value to our lives. We’ll also talk about ideas for lettin...

There is a beautiful quote that says, “Enjoy the little things, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things”. In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we will explore the idea of ‘the little things’ and what gets in the way of being able to enjoy them. Even in the midst of chaos, the little things are still there. Increasing our awareness, noticing our th...

Anger is a powerful emotion.  Everyone feels angry at different times for different reasons.  We may have experienced something we feel is unfair, or someone was disrespectful to us, or we felt we were unduly criticized.  Being angry at something external is familiar to most of us, but what about when we get angry with ourselves? In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we will focus on...

Seeing the world through someone else’s perspective is something we do when we read books, listen to stories, and watch movies. We also do it when other people share how they experienced something and we really listen, without judgment or a filter. But what about borrowing a perspective in order to apply it to our own situation? Borrowing a perspective is thinking about how another person wo...

The phrase ‘new normal’ has been popping up recently in the news and social media. It is a term meant to help us talk about our post-pandemic life. As our lives shift, restrictions lift, and more opportunities present themselves, many of us are wondering how we will navigate yet another time of change. As we emerge from the pandemic, we are also recognizing that we, as people, have cha...

At some point in our lives, many of us have the experience of feeling ‘stuck’. It could be an internal indecision or an external force that makes us feel that way. Maybe feeling stuck is about fear of change, or maybe it is because we feel hopeless or frustrated, or we simply don’t know what to do. In this episode of Get Big Out Loud, we will talk about a new perspective on the c...

“Comparison is the thief of joy” is a quote often attributed to Teddy Roosevelt. It is a powerful quote about how comparing ourselves to others can be detrimental to our happiness. In this episode of ‘Get Big Out Loud’, we will talk about how comparison can also be a thief of things like sadness, grief, acceptance, fulfillment, and especially authentic self-expression. We w...

We have now endured a year of the pandemic and many of us are struggling. We want things to return to ‘normal’ and we can see that we are closer to the end but we know that we are not there yet. We are somewhere in the in-between space, not the new normal, just the next moment. We are through with it but it is not through with us and we are looking for ways to cultivate both patience a...

What we say to each other, how we say it, and when we say it all matter. Words can be comforting, they can give us perspective, ease our pain, and affirm our feelings. In this time where our expressions are hidden behind masks, and we can’t give a handshake or a hug, we still have words to help us connect in meaningful ways. In this episode of ‘Get Big Out Loud’, we’ll expl...

Sometimes inspiration feels hard to come by. The obligations and hardships we endure can make inspiration difficult to access and in challenging times it is easy to lose inspiration. When we get in those hard places, a good coping strategy is to consciously decide to look for inspiration and be open to finding it. We can also actively seek out opportunities for inspiration and create experiences w...

The recent events at the national Capitol have not only created physical damage, but also emotional damage to our collective psyche. What do we do now? How do we process the shared and individual trauma that we’ve endured by living through this unprecedented time in history? In this episode of Get Big Out Loud we’ll talk about how emotional triggers work, ideas for how to mitigate them...

There is a concept called ‘dualistic thinking’ that has to do with categorizing things in one of two ways, this OR that: as in good or bad, like or dislike, right or wrong. However, most of us have grappled with situations where the answer was more nuanced than a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, where we’ve processed emotions that were more complicated than ‘go...

We are living in extraordinary times! Our lives have been impacted by the pandemic, the national conversation on race, the election, and the droughts and wildfires that are raging in many states. On top of this we are all dealing with our own personal issues and the demands of our daily lives. Managing all of this can require a lot of emotional labor and we need healthy, productive ways to process...

Many people have a hard time managing change.  We tend to resist it, bargain with it, fight against it, avoid it, make it harder than it needs to be or make excuses for why we can’t change.  Sometimes it simply feels too difficult to change or we get scared into complacency.  What if instead of trying to control or manage change, you could learn how to optimize your feelings,...

What if you could stop doing and start be-ing? Have you ever had a hard time being present in the moment because you are distracted by other thoughts? What if you could stop trying to make things ‘better’ before you acknowledge, and sit with what is? Watch live on Facebook. www.facebook.com/transformationtalkradio/

We are living in an intense time! A time of change, introspection, disappointment, heartache and hope.  We are looking at ourselves in new ways and asking ourselves what is possible...especially in today’s world. The idea of ‘get big out loud’ is a way for us to talk about a variety of concepts and break them down into ideas that we can utilize in our real lives, right now....