Inner Critic Freedom: Unlock Your Potential

Have you been in the personal or spiritual development space so long that you're aware of yourself and your patterns and have realized how much you judge, doubt, and criticize yourself that you have come to judge yourself for judging yourself?  I've been there myself, and found that keeping the pattern of self-judgment alive only perpetuates it. Yet when you're deep in that pattern it can be so ha...

When you find yourself worrying - going over every conceivable worst-case scenario and want a way out, try this hack that I'm sharing in today's episode.  Worrying is simply a way for our minds to (try) to protect us from uncertainty. Yet in an attempt to protect us from emotional harm, it usually creates it ahead of time.  This hack I'm sharing will help you move through the energy of worry, grou...

Imagine that you're needing to make a decision, so you're researching, taking notes, and the more you try to decide the harder it seems to get.  Now you've got even more options to choose from, you're confused, and what's worse, self-doubt is welling up stronger than ever.  You're questioning whether you can do it, whether it's possible, and asking painful questions like, "what if I make the wrong...

Do you ever feel like you're not doing enough? I get it. This was me. For a long time I could only see the flaws in something I finished or only see the ways that I didn't accomplish enough, and as a result I was left always striving and exhausted.  No matter how hard I worked, it never seemed like it was enough.  Until I realized that I didn't necessarily need to keep doing more, instead I wasn't...

I used to secretly worry if it were possible for my body to feel calm. I thought that I was somehow uniquely unable to relax, feel grounded, or experience peace inside without the stars all aligning perfectly.  Then I was introduced to meditation and quickly discovered that I don't have to live in a stressed state, and feeling calm could become a more natural, constant state instead.  Now years la...

Have you ever felt like you failed, lost all progress, and were completely exhausted at the idea of having to start again at zero when you miss a day in one of your desired habits? This was me! For as long as I can remember. And as a result I was notorious for picking up new habits and letting them fall apart time and time again.  Now that I've let go of three patterns (that I share in today's epi...

Are you connected with what you desire, what you love, what brings you joy? Do you know how to receive those things and allow them to expand? What if you find yourself limiting those things, in an attempt to take care of everyone else?  If that's you, then I'd say you're a very normal human being just trying to get through this life being as good of a person as you can be. Yet, what if we're missi...

Have you ever realized that there wasn't a class in school for one the things that we all experience the most: emotions? What's worse is that when we don't know how to navigate them, we inadvertently create so much more suffering for ourselves. When we do the things we HAVE learned how to do like shove your emotions down, compartmentalize, or avoid them, you quickly slip into unwanted patterns lik...

"Just be confident! You've got this!" Hearing this always made me roll my eyes, if I knew how to do that, I wouldn't feel nervous or insecure ever again! When you're feeling far from confident, it seems like you're supposed to just 'will' yourself to be confident, which only leaves you feeling farther from it.  Today I'm talking about the real step-by-step formula for gaining confidence that might...

Courage is one of my personal values because of all that it allows me to do - but it hasn't always been that way.  I used to believe courage meant taking action without being afraid. Meaning that I'd have to muster up the energy to stop fear in it's tracks AND take action. The idea felt impossible, and as a result I stayed small when I wanted to share myself. I stayed quiet when I wanted to speak...

What if in 2023, you were to stop limiting yourself, staying small, and going along to get along? And what if you were to instead decide to show up, be seen, and share the things that are on your heart? I know, any of my fellow people pleasers out there might be feeling a tad bit nervous at the idea, but hear me out… Today I'm sharing a story from my yoga teacher training when I personally discove...

You know the feeling... Maybe you've tried to start new healthy habits to lose weight. You've been putting the effort in and are actually feeling really good. You know you must've lost weight and are ready to REALLY celebrate, when you step on the scale and your heart sinks discovering that not much has changed.  How you can go from feeling good and accomplished to feeling awful in a matter of sec...

If I could narrow it down to one thing in my life that has created the most powerful transformation, growth, and wellbeing, it's goal-setting.  Yet when it comes to embarking on this activity, a LOT can come up blocking you, leaving you feeling confused and resistant. If you do set goals, and you're working towards them, you're bound to feel stuck or blocked from taking action at some point. So ma...

If you were to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, we are all seeking to feel more of the emotion of love. Whether that's feeling more love for ourselves, feeling stronger love in our relationships, or feeling loved by the people in our lives - it drives our goals, our success, or health and wellness and so much more.  Today I'm teaching how we actually experience this emotion, and ho...

Whether you celebrate a specific holiday during November and December or not, this time of year can be overwhelming, especially when it comes to the feeling of grief.  Today I talk about grief and the holiday season, how to move through waves of your own grief, and how to be there for others in their grief.

You know the crushing feeling: you're left alone in a room with someone you're not 100% socially comfortable with and immediately your palms start sweating, you're wondering what on earth you're going to talk about. You're dreading silence, what should you say? What should you do?  Today I'm sharing the biggest lessons I've learned from going from being a shy and awkward person to now enjoying goi...

Does it ever feel like being consistent (versus procrastinating, or all or nothing behavior) is just a part of you or it isn't? That's how I felt about it for a long time. I was NOT consistent in most areas of my life and instead thriving on taking action last minute with massive amounts of pressure, and would frequently let good habits fall away.  It wasn't until I had some big goals that demande...

As I went to record this episode, I got chills when I realized I was recording episode number "111". To me this number is meaningful. It makes me think of my dad ever since he passed away seven years ago.  So instead of recording the topic I had planned, I decided to share the top three pieces of advice my dad, Jim Leaden, taught me about entrepreneurship and how they apply to so many areas of lif...

For as long as I can remember, I was my own worst enemy. I had everyone else's back, yet it never even occurred to me to do the same for myself. What would that even look like? How in the world would you even start?  Over the years I've learned how, and it has truly transformed the way I experience life from the inside out. Now, it's the largest concept that I teach.  Today I'm sharing the subtle...

If you're into personal development, then you know the feeling: you've just dug deep and uncovered a limiting belief that explains why you've been so blocked! You're in that sweet spot of an 'aha' moment.  Then, immediately after, the natural next question floods in: how in the world do you let this belief go so you can be free to finally do what you want?  In today's episode I'm teaching you how...

You know that feeling of dread on those mornings when you wake up with heavy emotions, low energy, a schedule FULL of things you both want to do and need to do, and inspiration is so far away it's even hard to imagine you've ever even felt it at all?  I cannot tell you how many mornings I've woken up this way with the ensuing dread and frustration, disappointed that ANOTHER day might pass me by no...

Words spoken to me at the end of a mentorship I took years ago stayed with me and popped back into my head a couple weeks ago clicking everything into place.  In finding my purpose, every struggle, every challenge, every hurdle I faced all of a sudden made sense.  Today, I'm sharing how our mess is often our message and the story of how the mess I thought was leading me down the wrong path away fr...

Have you ever changed careers or gone through a transition in your life so big that it made you question who you are outside of it?  You found yourself in that paralyzing moment of uncertainty and fear, not sure what life will be like without the role you know yourself to fill or who you are underneath it?   Today on the podcast, I have the pleasure of speaking with Rebecca Rasmussen - a lifelong...

Are you ready for more and you either: have clear goals you're working towards, or you know you're ready for the next level but you're not sure exactly what that is... …and you're STUCK.  And you're not sure exactly why (let alone HOW to get unstuck).  In an effort to figure this out, you see that you're not taking action in the way you want to so naturally, you come across new productivity system...

If you want to know what it's like to challenge yourself under extreme conditions and achieve a lifelong goal, then you're in for a treat this week!  This episode will help you with courage, peace, and resiliency needed to face the fears standing between you and your goals.  I'm so excited to share my guest, Josie Caton's story as she had just completed a longtime goal of summiting Grand Teton and...