Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Have you ever faced a setback that felt insurmountable? Imagine being cut from your high school basketball team, only to become one of the greatest athletes of all time! That's exactly what Michael Jordan did, and in this inspiring episode, we share his incredible journey of self-belief and perseverance. We also discuss the crucial role of a supportive network of family and friends, and how h...

Celebrate your wins! Celebrate your successes!  If you are in a community that makes you feel guilty about celebrating achievement and the good you are doing, it's time to rethink your community.  Stop dimming your light and diminishing the value you add to the world. Jana was selected as one of Orlando Magazine's Women of the Year for 2023 . She was humbled and honored, but it came as a...

Jana discusses "Kindness" and the word "Nice".  Dr. Wayne Dyer once said, "If you have the choice between being right and being kind, always choose kindness." Jeff Bezos gives us, "Being Clever is a gift. Being nice is choice." Nice is just a little bland. Its like "good". The are givers, takers, and score keepers (those who give as long as they fe...

A few years ago Jana and I created 5'x4' Vision Boards with some pretty wild things on them for each of us.  Most people would be shocked at how many of those things have come to fruition.  There is power in intention and consistent awareness. We talk about Ellen DeGeneres owing me a sandwich haha. My pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago and several other significant events. Journaling a...

When it comes to people touching your body, are you more comfortable with same sex touching or opposite sex touching?  It's strictly business, but still. Jana and I started taking Ballroom Dancing. It has been incredible. I can't say enough about it. We spent about half an hour talking to a new friend, Rita, a student at the studio. She's a widowed senior. I call her Senior Rita. WE...

Have you ever not done something because of your fear of failure?  "What if I'm not good at this? I've never done this before. What if I can't do it?" Billionaire entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist, Sara Blakely's dad had a tradition of asking her and her brother "What did you fail at today?" at the dinner table.  This encouraged the Blakely's s...

What are you not telling yourself when you say, "I think I'm going to treat myself today." ?  Are you telling yourself HOW you will be treating yourself?  You've been training hard, working out, and watching what you eat.  Go "treat" yourself to some ice cream, piece of pie, a double quarter pounder with fries and a coke.  If you were a million dollar sports car, a ra...

What time is it? The time is always NOW. Get aware of the moment you are in. Turn down the distractions and turn up the gift of the present moment.  You are exactly where you are supposed to be.  Learn what must be learned. Do what must be done. Take action now and focus on the task at hand. Jana has a Freudian slip... who would have thought masturbation would come up in the middle of a mindfulnes...

 “Is exercising, then, like taking an antidepressant? Not exactly. In essence, NOT exercising is like taking a depressant." - Even Happier by Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar We don't exercise to add days to our life; we exercise to add life to our days.  Exercising, even moderately releases all sorts of happiness "Brain Chemicals", or neurochemicals.  Serotonin (5-HT) Norepnephrine (NE) Dop...

Are you waiting on SOMETHING so you can be HAPPY?  I often hear clients say, "When I have X I'll be Y."   It's the classic if/then equation and it doesn't add up.  It is just Bad Math. Are you focused on happy, planting happy, creating happy?  Do you have happiness triggers? do you actually remember the things that spark joy, that raise your emotional frequency and life vi...

Are you spending all your energy trying to stabilize the world around you to create stability in your life?  Trying to "Fix" everything external ... to change an INTERNAL feeling?  Can we just rest in that question for a moment and get REAL? “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to rev...

Do you say "Yes" to EVERYTHING?  Is it hard to say, "NO"?  In order to stay true to your own Purpose in life and to be available for the best possible opportunities to live into your best possible life, you will have to set personal "Yes" "No" boundaries. When you say "Yes" to 1 thing, you are effectively saying "No" to the 101M other pos...

Which wolf are YOU feeding? Fear and Faith both exist in the imagination.  I believe fear is just poorly directed imagination.  BELIEVE is the possibilities over the probabilities.  March forward in Faith. Don't get held back by fear. Be a Miracle in Motion. #MiracleInMotion "In other words, the human body sends 11 million bits per second to the brain for processing, yet the conscious mi...

Are you excellent at offering to help, giving compliments, being there for others? Is it difficult to receive when others try to do the same for you?  Have you ever felt like the world is divided between the #Givers and the #Takers? When you contribute to life, relationships, or anything really, there is a law of reciprocation. It wants to "come back around".  If we contribute money to A...

CREATE your own luck by aligning your desires, decisions, and Devine design.  You will find yourself leaning headlong into your Purpose with Passion, and see all the new Possibilities.  Jana and I took one of our programs typically used in corporations, businesses, and groups as a 1.5 hour "Unlock Your Creativity: Bring Flow, Innovation, and Teamwork back to your Teams to Renew Success",...

Do you find yourself stressing about all the things that you don't even have control over?  When we try to control.. we are placing unreasonable expectations on people and the world around us because the expectations are unexpressed expectations.  We envision how we WANT something to go from a singular perspective and then expect all the pieces to just fall into place.  It gets frustrating wh...

In business and in life, we all want to be successful. There are times however when it feels like we hit a plateau or a ceiling for growth.  We've maximized our capabilities.  In the simplest form, that could look like not being able to recognize available opportunities because our capability to Think Differently" has been maximized.  We become trapped in our "sameness". There...

We aren't giving away our beauty tips today. We are talking about that inner voice that's telling you, "There is something bigger and better out there for you. You were meant for more. You deserve better." You will never reach your full potential in your comfort zone, floating around in a complacency bubble.  Have the courage to step into the you that can lead you into your com...

You don't have to be happy ALL the time, but you can live in a State Of Joy, and choose to feel more happiness in life.   Have you ever actually asked yourself, "Am I truly happy?" and pondered the answer to the question deeply? Jana and I live in a state of gratitude and often joyful state.  We are not always happy AND we are deeply disturbed by much of what is going on in the worl...

Is there an area of your life that you need to declutter?  Thoughts, Physical space, Emotions, Energy, Your Friends or Social Circle??? What you watch, or scroll through? There is A LOT of noise in the world.  Is it crowding YOU out?  Clutter may be a sign of a scarcity mindset in a specific area of your life.  Clutter in your life also correlates to areas of our lives that are not organized and c...

We are pretty worn our from the last week and especially this weekend.  Here's the rundown. Jason wrapped up an 8 day trip to a 4 day event in Dallas and got home after 11:30 Tuesday night. Jana ran the house and business all week, plus read 6 or 7 books assigned by her coach over 2 weeks, held 2 group coaching appointments, attended a recognition event to honor her service (I missed it), and...

What is perfectionism doing for you? Are you waiting to know everything, waiting for the perfect timing, waiting for more resources?  What is keeping you from taking action to get a little closer to the actual end goal? Rate of application... What STEPS can you take NOW, each day, to get you physically closer to your success markers while you are still "gathering" the remaining resources...

Have you ever felt like you are living the same week over and over again?  Anxiety sets in between 4 and 8 pm on Sunday and you know Monday is going to start of another week that looks and feels just lake last week.  How long has that been going on?   If this is relatable, you're life has fallen into the hypnotic rhythm. You may not remember what you had for breakfast, but you can pretty much...

We're heading to THE AMAZING RACE for charity in Eustis Florida. Do YOU ever feel like life has hit you RIGHT IN THE FACE? here's the video we reference about the lady from the CBS series Amazing Race getting crushed in the face in 2010. It's brutal. Jana and I value health, fun, gratitude, contributing to society, and community. This event allows us to fill all these buckets at onc...

What does it mean to be Living Lucky?  Our thoughts and beliefs influence the actions we take. The actions we take lead to the experiences we have in life.  Our thoughts and beliefs about our experiences influence how we feel about our life as a whole AND our beliefs about life. Beliefs --->Thoughts--->Feelings/Emotions--->Actions--->Results=Overall Experience --->Beliefs --->Tho...