Motherhood Equipped

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Today’s episode marks my first time recording an episode since having our little boy, so I thought I'd share 5 lessons I’ve learned so far since having a baby: 1: Don’t fear the future 2: Live in the moment even if it means tossing a to-do to tomorrow's to-do list 3: Don’t think, just do 4: Share. S...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Leah Brueggemann is a functional diagnostic nutritional practitioner who works with women from all over to support their bodies through proper nutrition in order to balance their hormones. Especially when it comes to leadership, I know firsthand how closely she works with and leads her clients throu...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In today’s episode, we take that one step further by exploring the key to connection: Our imperfections. This is a short episode, but a massive topic. I hope just this small snippet gave you something to think about and, as always, send any feedback my way!     Until next episode, B ________________...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In this conversation, we have a very special guest: My mom! We hear from her and her many years of tried and true experience on what success can look like as a parent, the importance of remembering delayed gratification, leadership as a mother, and the challenges of balancing work and family life. S...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. To give you the SparkNotes version of today’s episode, I would sum it up with this quote which I’ve heard far too many times to even know its original source: At the end of the day, people won’t remember what you say to them. They’ll remember how you make them feel. Until next episode, B --- Support...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Dr. Deanna Holdren is a board-certified family practice physician currently practicing in the area of functional medicine. She specializes in nutritional healing, bio-identical hormone balance, whole-body detoxification, and the reversal of inflammation within the body. In this conversation, we talk...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Quitting isn’t easy and it is viewed oftentimes in a negative light. No one wants to be a “quitter,” and no one wants to feel like they are giving up, but sometimes, quitting is the best way to open up opportunities for yourself that are even better than you can imagine! In this episode, we cover: Q...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Jess Bargenquast is the founder of Lady ChangeMakers, an all-inclusive e-commerce platform for women-owned businesses. Jessica is an expert in creating exposure and driving traffic for e-commerce businesses, and she is also an introvert! Listen as she shares about her journey building a business fro...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. The stories we tell ourselves set a lot of the trajectory for our future. We can choose to repeat the stories of times we fell short of a goal, and feel deflated in the face of our next big obstacle. Or, on the other hand, we can choose to tell ourselves of the times we overcame challenges and let t...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In this episode, we walk through the deep ties between our habits, our confidence, and our identity. Then, we go through practical tips to quit bad habits and develop beneficial ones.   I reference a lot of Atomic Habits by James Clear, "How to Break a Bad Habit and Replace It With a Good One" , and...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Today, we go over my personal favorite way to build sustainable habits: The Lulubuck System!    I came up with this as a way to give myself small, tangible rewards on my way towards developing the habits I knew I wanted to solidify. Delayed gratification can be hard and can even make us give up some...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Today we hear from Certified Human Potential Coach Lieve Hendren about the steps to take if you are overwhelmed on a given day, how to set goals that are intrinsically motivating, the power behind having one priority per day, and the relationship between goal setting and cultivating hope in our live...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. When forgiving others, the prisoner that it really frees is you.    Recommended book on forgiveness by Lysa TerKeurst Forgiving What You Can't Forget Mayo Clinic Article Until next episode, B --- Support this podcast:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brigitta-borinstein/support

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. We dive into three reasons why forgiving ourselves might be the next best step in our leadership, and we reframe our perspective on shame. In this episode, we learn that forgiveness can even give us the space we need to try things over again until we achieve our goals and inspire others to do the sa...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Between better fitness and nutrition during the holidays, and the many opportunities to step up in leadership of loved ones and friends, here are 9 ways we can make this our best Thanksgiving yet!   Until next episode, B --- Support this podcast:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brigitta-bor...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. How can you use fitness and exercise to propel your leadership development? How can the right mindset about fitness help you be the best and most confident you? Those are some of the questions we answer in today's episode by walking through three of the main areas where fitness and leadership develo...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Sometimes the idea of being really successful and reaching all of our goals can be daunting. There are so many strings attached to success in any number of areas that we question if we would be able to maintain it and sometimes if we even deserve it!   Today's episode walks through seven ways we can...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Today's episode takes us all the way back to the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City watching Bob Beamon compete in the long jump qualifiers and final rounds. He scratches his first two jumps and, with only one more opportunity to jump, has to replace the pressure and fear with faith and confidence. If we...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Happy 1 year to the Best You Can B podcast! In celebration of our first whole year together, I (Brigitta!) actually have the privilege of being interviewed. We return to some basic questions like "what makes women's leadership unique?" and "how does leadership and wellness go hand-in-hand?" Enjoy! ...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In today's episode, we dive into fashion and how the choices we make around what to wear can sometimes hinder our leadership growth. We go over the intent behind the attention we get with our clothes and how some ways in which we might choose to express ourselves aren't the most beneficial in the lo...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In today's episode, we cover all things leading while being spread thin from the discipline to look beyond the here and now craziness to value-based prioritization; From practically getting rid of distractions to still prioritizing the people that matter in your life and in your leadership roles.  U...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Rebecca Bender is grit, resiliency, wisdom, and definitely a sense of humor all wrapped up in an incredible story of redemption and triumph. Relentless in her mission to help others find their purpose, she is CEO of the Rebecca Bender Initiative and founder of Elevate Academy, the largest online sch...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Today’s episode is about leading through anxiety. With a little perspective, we can stop letting anxiety get in the way of our capacity and potential to lead others and make a difference.  Watch the sermon! Until next episode,  B --- Support this podcast:  https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bri...

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. In this episode, we cover not only why it is so important for us to celebrate others, but also why we need to celebrate others from the prized position of inner confidence.   We go through a few tips of ways to cultivate inner confidence, ways to put celebrating others into practice, and tons more....

This episode is from the previous season of the podcast, focused on leadership and personal growth. Darynne Dahlem is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, current medical school student, and she was crowned Miss Arkansas in 2019. She also represented Miss Arkansas at the 2020 Miss America Pageant and has earned a number of awards throughout the process including the Jessie Ward Bennett Leader...