Overcome Yourself The Podcast With Nicole Tuxbury

Send us Fan Mail Motivation is not something we wait for, it is something we build, and this conversation makes that feel practical instead of preachy. Nicole sits down with author and longtime motivational speaker Lori Kleiner Eckert to talk about what it really takes to reinvent yourself when life changes fast or breaks your heart. Lori shares the heart behind her book, High on Life, a collectio...

Send us Fan Mail A room full of people and he still felt completely alone. Daryl takes us back to the moment his drinking and drug use stopped being “fun,” stopped being manageable, and started looking like an exit from life itself. It’s a raw conversation about addiction, denial, and the quiet shame of becoming someone you don’t recognize, even while you work overtime to hide it from everyone els...

Send us Fan Mail Betrayal trauma hits differently than other losses because it shatters trust, identity, and safety all at once. We break down post-betrayal syndrome and the five predictable stages that move you from survival and triggers to real healing and a new worldview.  • why betrayal feels different than grief, illness, and other trauma  • what post-betrayal syndrome looks like across physi...

Send us Fan Mail Purpose is everywhere right now, but most of what we hear is motivational without being usable. Nicole sits down with Ian to get concrete: what purpose actually is, how it works in real life, and how you can turn it into a simple purpose statement you can live by. The punchy idea that anchors the conversation comes from a Picasso quote Ian loves: the meaning of life is to find you...

Send us Fan Mail Nicole and Kathy Baldwin unpack how inherited beliefs, trauma, and outdated expectations can quietly shape our choices until we decide to unlearn them. We connect personal healing to a bigger societal shift and share practical ways to choose new values, build better systems, and step into what’s already inside you.  • Kathy’s Gen X perspective on going from analog to digital and w...

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Lyubim about going from a 17-year-old immigrant with no safety net to an Olympian, a Wall Street professional who lived through 9/11, and the founder of Wings for Heroes, a mission supporting amputee veterans. The through line is simple: stop hiding in planning, decide what matters, and take one real step you can do today.  • Lyubim’s origin story and how early hardsh...

Send us Fan Mail We talk with intuitive life coach and author Tracey Napier about learning to use your voice when fear and insecurity have been running the show. Tracey shares how gratitude, spirituality, and small daily actions help her turn a lifelong challenge into purpose and power.  • Tracey’s background as an intuitive life coach and how she helps women feel unstuck  • Growing up with a clef...

Send us Fan Mail We challenge the idea of “healthy shame” and argue that shame is learned cultural programming that keeps us controlled and disconnected from ourselves. We share a concrete way to spot the shame voice, stop engaging with it, and reclaim your power with empathy and grounded action. • Shame as self-erasure and a mechanism of control rather than a normal human emotion  • Why the shami...

Send us Fan Mail We talk with Maxwell Ivy, the Blind Blogger, about why accessibility is a growth lever for small businesses and a real-world way to serve people better. We connect the dots between inclusive design, SEO, cleaner code, loyal customers, and the power of community when you stop trying to do everything alone. • Maxwell’s work as an accessibility advisor for products, services, and con...

Send us Fan Mail What if your body isn’t the problem to fix, but the guide you’ve been ignoring? We sit down with best-selling author Inna Seagall to explore how symptoms, emotions, and life events weave into a precise language that can point you toward healing, clarity, and purpose. From headaches that mirror overload to eye issues that reflect what you can or cannot bear to see, Inna shows how e...

Send us Fan Mail A touring rapper with a numb arm, a misread diagnosis, and a life that swerved—B‑Side sits down with us to share how MS reshaped his art, business, and sense of purpose. What begins as a story about hip hop and Juggalo community widens into a candid look at healthcare quality, wheelchair design that hasn’t changed in decades, and the mental battle to stay grateful without faking i...

Send us Fan Mail We explore why motivation follows action, how to design dopamine on purpose, and the small routines that help ADHD brains move from fight or flight to calm, focused doing. Along the way we reframe neurodivergence as a strength, anchor it with gratitude, and close with a self-compassion blueprint. • what an ADHD executive function coach actually helps with • why motivation is a myt...

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Send us Fan Mail Support the show Unlock the secrets to online business success with these FREE and low-cost resources from Nicole! - Join our supportive FB Group to connect with like-minded entrepreneurs and get exclusive tips and advice: https://nicoletuxbury.com/facebook - Get your copy of the Best of the Profit Machine Summit Book shipped to you to learn from 15+ experts on how to turn your on...

Send us Fan Mail We trace how trauma drove constant reinvention and how healing turned that motion into purpose. Hilary shares her journey from child voice actor to recovery mentor, unpacking core wounds, gratitude, reparenting, and the art of receiving. • black-and-white thinking vs finding the gray • addiction as symptom of deeper wounds • reparenting yourself with kinder language • receiving co...

Send us Fan Mail Ever tried to change your life by changing your location? Shannon did what so many dream about—she left Seattle for the Cayman Islands—only to learn the hardest lesson of all: you can’t outrun yourself. When “vacation mode” became daily life and blackouts replaced boundaries, she chose sobriety over starting from zero again. That decision didn’t just save her; it rebuilt her caree...

Send us Fan Mail Burnout wears many masks: excellence, loyalty, grit. We open the door on what happens when those masks crack—and how to rebuild a life that performs without falling apart. Our guest, Jen Hardy, went from state-champion coach to sleeping in her car between practices, then chose a different path that now helps high-stress professionals become strong from the inside out. We talk abou...

Send us Fan Mail Ever deliver great work and then hear nothing but crickets when it’s time to get paid? We brought in Dee Bowden, creator of Collect the Cash, to show a better way—one that turns awkward follow-ups into respectful conversations and overdue invoices into closed payments. Dee has spent decades in accounts receivable, and her approach is simple: solve the problem, serve the client, sa...

Send us Fan Mail Thinking about leaving a stable corporate role but not sure how to do it without blowing up your life? We sit down with Tabatha, the Corporate Escape Sherpa, to chart a grounded path to a fulfilling second act that honors your paycheck, your benefits, and your sanity. No beach hustle myths here—just a clear, tested plan for building a coaching or consulting business while you’re s...

Send us Fan Mail What if healing starts with learning to listen—really listen—to your body’s signals and the patterns beneath your thoughts? We sit down with dancer-turned-healer Fran Bailey to unpack a life shaped by intuition: a near-death experience at twelve, a stage 4 cancer diagnosis as a young mom, and the creation of the Shiva method, a practical framework for self-healing grounded in move...

Send us Fan Mail What if the fastest way to grow your business is to tell the truth about who you are? We sit down with transformational life coach and chef Neena Perez for a grounded, hope-filled conversation about turning pain into purpose and building a service business that aligns with your deepest values. From faith-infused decision-making to the science-backed power of gratitude, this episod...

Send us Fan Mail The moment you realize you’ve eaten “the whole bag” can feel like failure but what if it’s just a predictable pattern your brain has been running on autopilot? We sit down with coach Nadege Saysana to unpack binge eating through a lens that’s both compassionate and practical, especially for women who lift weights and want their nutrition to match their strength goals. We get hones...

Send us Fan Mail Your personal brand is already out there. The real question is whether you are shaping it on purpose or letting it form by accident. We sit down with corporate executive, board member, author, and speaker Victoria Peltier to unpack what personal branding actually means in real life and why “I’m a finance person at Company X” is the smallest possible version of your story. We walk...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when the job that defines you nearly breaks you—and then hands you the blueprint to rebuild? Jenn, a 17-year ER nurse, joins us to share how COVID burnout pushed her to write, research, and ultimately teach the skill that kept showing up in her toughest shifts: intuition. She didn’t stop at stories; she hunted the science, uncovering dozens of peer-reviewed studies th...

Send us Fan Mail Death isn’t a topic most of us run toward, yet few conversations feel more human than an honest talk about grief, love, and what it means to be present at the end of life. We sit down with end-of-life doula Gina Economopoulos to explore how loss can open us to deeper compassion, clearer priorities, and a steadier way of living. From the death of her mother to years in a convent, f...