Love Your Story: Stories and discussions about personal growth, mindset and living with intention

  Focus on Your Awesome – Run YOUR Race We are all familiar with the saying that what we focus on is magnified. The things we spend our time thinking about become a reality for us, so why might I ask, do we so often focus on our weaknesses, the things we don’t feel like we’re good at? Let’s change that. We have a lot of awesome going on already. Stories are our lives in language. Welcom...

Episode 58 Interview with Mina Guli – 7 Deserts Run and the 6 Rivers Run After being pushed into a swimming pool and receiving a back injury where the doctors told her she would never be able to run again. Mina Guli could have used this as an excuse to define her life with limitations and boundaries defined by victimhood. Instead, she said to herself, “Am I going to let this doctor define wh...

INTERVIEW WITH ANNIE MACWILLIAMS Today I interview a triple crown through-hiker – What’s a triple crown through-hiker? It’s someone who hikes the three longest trails in the United States – the Appalachian Trail (2165 miles), the Pacific Crest Trail (2650 miles), and the Continental Divide Trail (2800 miles). Tune in to hear why she does it, a few of her adventures, and to...

Interview: Access Fund National Conservation Team – Climbing the Nose of El Cap The Access Fund is a non-profit committed to protecting climbing access and the integrity of America’s outdoor rock climbing areas. They face issues like loss of areas as private land is lost to development, or public land managers regulate the areas, or climbers overuse an area and degrade it. The Access F...

Today we kick off a month of adventure interviews; stories with adventurers about their feats and stories. Interview with the Higgenbotham brothers (twins) The Higgenbotham twins are lifeguards from Southern California, endurance athletes, and surfers. Deciding, on a handshake, to undertake the adventure of a lifetime, the two brothers set out to prone paddleboard, using only their hands to propel...

The Stories We Tell Ourselves Stories are our lives in language. Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. I’m Lori Lee, and I’m excited for our future together of telling stories, evaluating our own stories, and lifting ourselves and others to greater places because of our control over our stories. This podcast is about empowerment and giving you, the listener, ideas to work with in making your sto...

Interview with Rob Holmes – Founder and Chief Strategist of GLP Films How to Identify Your Next Great Story Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast! Today we are back in business interview land where we talk with professionals who have learned the true value of story in business, and they share their knowledge and ideas with us on how to use story in our professional spaces. Today we get to ta...

Interview with Star Coulbrooke the Poet Laureate of Logan, Utah. Our life stories are poetry in the making. Poetry is story at its most distilled; story where every word matters; story rich in image and sound and power. Today I am excited to introduce Star Coulbrooke, Poet Laureate for the City of Logan, Utah, she is also the co-founder and coordinator of Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings v...

Episode 51: A Political Story about the newly designated Bear’s Ears National Monument and those who are willing to fight for its survival. For contact information for Utah senators, go to: http://senate.utah.gov/ When President Obama designated the Bears Ears National Monument he gave the following speech – The White House; Office of the Press Secretary. December 28, 2016 Statement by...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 5– The Final Reframe At any given moment you have the power to say, “This is NOT how the story is going to end.” Join us today as we discuss the 5 th and final step in reframing the chapters of your story that feel broken. Today we’ll put all the previous steps together to come to the final reframing of your story. Get ready to re...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 4– Changing Lenses A farmer stood with his dog overlooking his fields. Behind them in the grasses peered a small brown rabbit, and above flew a lark. The farmer looked across the field and saw cows, milk, provisions for his family, a new car. The dog saw frustration because wild things could so easily hide and escape his chase. Th...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories: 5 Part Workshop Series: Step 3– Finding the Meaning or Purpose Behind an Experience When Becky Andrews  (episode 22) found out that she had a degenerative eye disease that would cause her to go blind, I’m sure she wondered, “Why me?.” When my son was diagnosed with Leukemia and had to return from his mission where he was teaching others about Christ’s l...

How to Reframe Your Difficult Stories 5-Part Workshop Series: Step 2 – Tell Your Stories Those stories hidden in the dark of night, kept under cover, the lid closely guarded and locked, cannot breathe or break free from shame, guilt or sadness that are a part of their very nature. Until the lid is opened, until the light can shine down upon the dark shadows, to chase them out and loosen the...

REFRAME YOUR DIFFICULT STORIES – 5-Part Workshop Series Do you want to be free of the stories in your life that make you feel small or that you find shame or guilt around? These stories often affect our self-perception and thus our interpreted self-worth. This workshop is to help you reframe and resee your life in healthier ways. Workshop Step #1 – Accept It Debbie Ford said, “The greatest a...

Interview with the Kjars (pronounced Cares) 50 by 52 The Kjar family sold their home, bought a motorhome, and took their four kids on the road for a year of seeing the country, meeting other kids their age in different parts of the country and shadowing their lives for a day, and learning how to live in cramped spaces for extended periods of time. Join us for today’s interview with Matt and...

Dominos – Ripples – Butterfly Effect: You make a Difference Have you ever felt small or insignificant, maybe even powerless? In our big world where media gives us access to the vast happenings across the globe we come to realize the scope of the world, the overwhelming nature of the trauma and catastrophes across the globe, and all too often that bigness creates in us a sense of smallness; a sense...

Interview with Margaret Meloni  MBA, PMP Margaret is a speaker, writer, and teacher who supports project managers with the art and science of project management. Margaret understands that managing projects can be difficult and this is why her goal is to provide her community with knowledge and skills that can be used on the job RIGHT NOW! Her wish is to see her students take on tough projects and...

Persistence – the simple key to success I started sending my writing out for publication or sending out queries, while I was still in college: little blurbs on backpacking food and political rock climbing issues. I was willing to write for free. I look at the then and the now, and the one thing I know for certain is that the primary reason I am well published is because of persistence. Because, mo...

Welcome back to the Love Your Story interview land. A couple quick announcements before we get started – I wanted to let you know that there is a new free mini-e-book available on the Love Your Story podcast website. It’s called The 5 Steps to Reframing the parts of your story that Feel Broken . Just give us your email and we’ll send it to your inbox. Now, let me tell you who we’re talking with to...

A Facebook Post About How To Create Your Dreams  There are moments in our lives when someone succinctly verbalizes our beliefs and understanding in a clear and perfect fashion, and we say “Yes! That is exactly what I have come to know,” or “Yes, that is exactly what I think.” This happened to me this week. My son is on an LDS mission where he is out serving others and teaching them about Christ. W...

Matt Garner, CEO of Longboard PR and a public speaker, specializes in helping people understand how to connect with their audience, and he’s a real fan of story. 5 Tips for How To Tell A Story– with Matthew Garner Welcome back to Love Your Story interview land. Today I am bringing you Matthew Garner and he’s going to share his 5 tips for how to tell a story that impacts. Why does this...

You Must Be Present to Win – Sensual Living May Swenson said, “Not to be fully aroused to the potentialities of one’s senses means to walk the flat ground of appearances.” What this means is You Must Be Present to Win. Stay with us today for some thoughts on using your senses to bring the richness out of your story. The best and most interesting stories are full of rich detail. Not only is this an...

Binge Eating Disorder – Interview with Courtney Zollinger Courtney Zollinger is the author of the Snatching Sunshine blog. She began the blog to help others understand Binge Eating Disorder and to share her story in overcoming. Living in Rocklin, California Courtney is a wife and mother of a beautiful 2-year-old girl. Courtney has Bing eating disorder and has learned how to overcome. She wan...

Tips and Techniques for Better Storytelling I was speaking at a business event the other day and afterward someone said, “I’d love to have some tips that I could work on, so I can tell better stories. Do you have a newsletter you can send me?” I told him about the weekly inspirational thought that you can sign up for on the website – and I totally suggest you all do that – it’s great to get an ins...

Choosing Your Perspective on Purpose – Interview with Ryan Clarkin Welcome back to the  Love Your Story Podcast Interview Land! Drumroll! Choosing your perspective in every situation is a concept that frankly blows the lid off of life as we know it because it gives us complete control over our realities. While to some this is an exciting idea, to others it’s WAY too much responsibility.  I d...