Go With Your Gut

How does fear affect you? Do you turn away and numb it somehow? Or do you think "challenge accepted" and go right towards it? Fear comes at us in lots of different ways: fear of failure, imposter syndrome, the "what if" game, and so many more. Marianne and I talked a lot about what it looks like for us to challenge that and work through it. Turning that nervous energy that comes from fear and usin...

Ever find yourself tired and feeling in a rut or stuck? Ready for something new but don't know where to go? Conflicted. I've been there. I've got a couple of ideas to help you get some clarity and figure out what next steps to take or what new things to do in order to gain some forward momentum. Being stuck in that spot can be very lonely even if your surrounded by people.

In a rut? Too comfortable? Not sure why you love your job/what you do but your not happy? Have that "restless" feeling that you can't get rid of? Maybe you do feel stressed because you have grown as much as you can where you are. These are my signs that its time for a change. Change is hard, uncomfortable, and if your a people pleaser it means you don't want to disappoint anyone by moving on. When...

Does opposition frustrate you? It did me. My reaction was to figure out how to get out of the opposition. What if you (and me) shifted that perspective. We love to easy times because its just that, easy. There will always be those hard times, and opposition. Jobs, relationships, medical issues, finances, etc. Instead of looking for the way out, what if we looked at opposition as a good thing. The...

Whats your reaction to confrontation? Avoid at all costs. Avoid until no longer able to? Or are you someone who welcomes confrontation if it means getting things resolved? I discuss my thoughts and how my ways of navigating confrontation have evolved over the years. Watch for some of my tips on how to achieve long term resolution with some short term discomfort and how to approach confrontation.

Anger is tricky. Comes on fast, or sometimes takes a while to build up. Not to mention it makes itself known no matter where you are. Some of us like to sit in it, others push it away because they always stay positive. But is either one good? No matter what, anger is something we all feel from time to time. Its also something we cause from time to time. The important thing, is learning how to mana...

What do you do when things feel off? I don't mean being sick, I mean those time when you can't quite put a label on it but you know something isn't right. What do you do? I've had some clear times in the past years where I had to #gowithmygut and listen to what my intuition was telling me. What action do you take when you feel this way? Do you push the feeling down and keep going? Do you numb it?...

I got to chat with Joann about so many different things. How she got started in a career and how the road she took looked very different from what she pictured. That road to the unkown can be terrifying, but can also lead to great results. Along that road sometimes we discover gifts (aka purpose) that we may brush off. If we can learn to fight off the fear of the unkown and go with that gut instin...

If your gut was trying to talk to you, would you know how to listen? Charli and I chatted about it all. Getting to know yourself and your body. How you feel things like stress and fear. Being able to turn the energy that comes with fear into adrenaline to move through it and still take the action. What does it look like to be scared and still figure out how to move forward. Charli has been a busin...

So often people look outside themselves for belief that they can do something. Big or small. I’ll take you through the things I did to develop that within myself.

So many people function from a state of overwhelm and just learn to cope and function. I’m no different. But I also know that it gets lonely in that state. It feels like something has to give. Today I talked about some things going on with me recently and how I’ve navigated my own overwhelm, because it’s definitely been there.

We tend to use our use our limitations and faults as an excuse as to why we can do things or why we aren’t good at something. In my experience, that’s a choice we make. We want to brush them off and push them down because we don’t like that they make us feel weak. What if we accept they are part of us and work to channel them or manage them. Pushing them down is like being on a diet, it’s all you...

Do you ever feel like your working so hard at something and it just won't happen? You feel like your forcing it? Or, you feel like something is just not happening for you, so you want to just give up? I've been there. I talk in my book Go With Your Gut: Then Keep Going about my faith. Its been a crazy journey but one thats made me grow. In this episode, I chatted with Christian business coach Elis...

Emotions. Not a subject most people like to talk about. Why because they are messy, complicated, and make a lot of people feel weak. I wanted to talk about why we should "feel the feels." Not in a weak way, but in a "deal with your crap so you can move on" sort of way. Years ago i learned to start doing this and its been messy, yes. But its also helped me be able to manage myself better and move o...

How does fear make itself known? In so many different ways. If you can relate to me and it either used to paralyze you or still does, its hard. So how can we shift our mindset and flip the narrative to turn the adrenaline from fear into motivation. I'll tell you a couple different scenarios in which I had to do this for myself. It takes practice and we won't be perfect (or even close) the first ti...

Perfectionism. I've never been a perfectionist but I have had qualities quite similar. I have a strong belief in progress over perfection. I've wanted to do a lot of things that I had no experience doing. But over the years, I've learned to trust myself that I will figure out how to do it. That is, if I want it bad enough. I get very excited to do things and then i get discouraged when it doesn't...

Nobody likes “dark times.” This times when your struggling through hard times, conflict, maybe some challenging relationships, or internal stuff. What things can we do to move through? How do we come out of those times stronger and better?

Nicole comes from a technical background in IT but knew there was something more for her. She tells us how she worked through taking that leap of faith and going for what she wanted. We talk about that moment of figuring out what we want and what that means moving forward. We talk about what it was like for Nicole to work through those tough internal moments and the steps she took to break through...

Fear of Judgement (internal or external) has been a big factor on if I move forward with something or not. I’ve had to learn to change my thinking and shift my mindset because mostly they were things I made up. They were not true. So I’ve learned and I’m still working on this, to move forward regardless of what I’m telling myself might happen.