Own Your Best Life Podcast

Welcome friends to Episode #121 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If I were to make a top 5 list of things I coach on, tolerating uncertainty would be up there. An achiever's nightmare is uncertainty and lack of control. That sentence alone may have given you the shivers (and not in a good way). Even if you think you are pretty laid back and flexible, when you don't get what you want fast enough...

Welcome friends to Episode #120 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When we think about what we want next in terms of our careers, it can be difficult to go down the road less traveled. Many careers and organizations have a well-defined career path that looks like a series of promotions or lateral moves that eventually lead to an end destination. The head of a company, a department or a functional...

Welcome friends to Episode #119 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Big things can happen when you go away. When you plan a trip, you want to be able to make the most of it. If you've ever gone away and come back with a fresh perspective, new relationships or decisions made - you know the power of a trip. It can change your life. Today's podcast is on what makes a trip life-changing and how to crea...

Welcome friends to Episode #118 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the things that make it easiest to move around in this world is knowing our gifts. What are our competencies? What are our strengths? How do we make what's unconscious, conscious so that we know how best to show up in any given situation? Today's podcast is on this very thing. Your unconscious competencies and why it's so im...

Welcome friends to Episode #117 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Our identity and accomplishments in this world are often tied to what others believe is worthy. We are looking for happiness in the approval of others. This is completely normal, yet there comes a time when you feel a bit lost in the sea of the world around you. How do you cut the ties of external validation when it stops serving y...

Welcome friends to Episode #116 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We will often come across people with personalities that seem larger-than-life. They seem to take over conversations and situations, leaving you wondering, "what happened?" How do we work and live with people who seem to not only have big personalities, but also opinions and ways of working that differ from our own? Today's podcast...

Welcome friends to Episode #115 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Whatever you believe, you know that death is a certainty. Whether it's the death of someone you love or the death of your identity, the grief of loss is inescapable. What do you do when this happens and how do you process these life changes? Today, we'll examine how to live our lives and chart a path forward through grief.    LEARN...

Welcome friends to Episode #114 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. How we spend our mornings and evenings can often be reduced to the single phrase, "I'm not a morning person" or "I am a morning person." If you've struggled with morning routines, you'll know that it can feel challenging to get these new habits to stick, especially when you feel that you're a night owl. Today, we'll really check in...

Welcome friends to Episode #113 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. In a world where we feel even more time-starved and distracted, we crave simplicity. When I work with people who feel like there is so much more to do than time to do it, often the one thing they most desire is to not have to do anything. If you feel like sometimes all you want is to simply stare at a wall and not be on the move, c...

Welcome friends to Episode #112 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There's often a time in our life where the day to day doesn't cut it anymore. We want some of the magic and the mystique. We are looking for something intangible and extraordinary. A feeling and an experience where we feel connected to the moment in such a way that we get lost in it. Today, we'll look at what it means to have that...

Welcome friends to Episode #111 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We all know the power of focus and how if we could stay focused for a little bit longer on what matters most, then we would be able to do so much more in the time we have. In our culture of distraction and multitasking, it often feels impossible to stay focused on one thing at a time. Today, we'll review how to actually stay focuse...

Welcome friends to Episode #110 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you want to do something new, you often don't because you think you might fail. What if you knew how to become really good at something? What if you knew that there was a process to figuring it all out and that you could become really good? Would you try something then? Would you finally do that thing you really want to do but h...

Welcome friends to Episode #109 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the first things that happens when we start thinking about changing our jobs or our lifestyle is we get worried about money. Even if finances don't drive your decision about what you do for a living, you still want to feel like you can support yourself. You are making decisions on a daily basis about how you live your life b...

Welcome friends to Episode #108 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We don't always get what we want. Sometimes that helps us and sometimes that creates more issues. Why do we sometimes have success? Why don't we always get the success we desire? When you've gotten pretty good at your work, we can be surprised by feedback from others or from results that show us we aren't as good at everything as w...

Welcome friends to Episode #107 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by a long list of goals and to-do's, you know that you need to prioritize. Yet, we don't want to do it because it makes us feel like we have to make the impossible decision of saying no to things we really want. If it was so easy to prioritize, you would have already done it. How do you prioritize wh...

Welcome friends to Episode #106 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Financial stability is often what we desire when we start to feel insecure about our money situation. It's also the basis of taking risks and developing a sense of self-worth. What if we thought about financial stability as a construct of our mind instead of as hard numbers? How would our life change as a result of thinking about f...

Welcome friends to Episode #105 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. What if you could continually grow in the amount of satisfaction and happiness that you felt? When we have goals, we get excited and start doing the work to get there. At some point, however, we hit those goals and then we wonder, "is this it?" In today's podcast, I want to offer you a new way to think about success, plateaus and w...

Welcome friends to Episode #104 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When was the last time you truly defined what success meant on your terms? Not just for one specific goal, but across the whole of your life? When we don't redefine success, we stay exactly where we are doing the things that we used to define as successful. As you start to get that feeling of accomplishment and success, we struggle...

Download the Bedtime Routines PDF here to create your very own routines. Welcome friends to Episode #103 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When we begin to review the times in our day where we feel the most challenged, bedtime and evenings can be one of them. We often have an ideal that we feel we're not living up to in our lives whether it's our own use of the evenings and how we transition into...

Welcome friends to Episode #102 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Please join us for a one hour, virtual meditation and sound healing event to benefit the Ukraine refugee crisis. If you feel called to do so, you can make a donation to the International Rescue Committee . The International Rescue Committee provides food, medical care, and emergency services to refugee families. In this hour, we wi...

Welcome friends to Episode #101 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you've ever felt like you were spending too much time at work and not enough time at home, you've likely considered whether or not you were making the right choice. Career or family? What about those who feel like they're spending too much time at home and not enough time working? If you're in that camp, you're likely also wonde...

Welcome friends to Episode #100 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. The big 100. It's fitting that we cover the very topic that created this podcast in the first place. Answering the question, "Why?" We spend over 90,000 hours at work over the course of our lifetimes. Why do we work? What do we want from our work? We want to feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction at the end of each day and...

Welcome friends to Episode #99 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. I thought it would be helpful to share some of the teaching that happens in my group coaching sessions. When you are a 1:1 client, you get access to attend these sessions where I teach on topics that will help you reach your goals more effectively and sustainably. Today's podcast is a snippet from one of our sessions on mind-body pr...

Welcome friends to Episode #98 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. As I've introduced meditation to my kids to help them wind down and fall asleep over the last year, I've gotten asked to share the meditations I use. Today's podcast is exactly that: a kids meditation for sleep. It's one that I created to help the body transition into a relaxed state. Feel free to listen to it yourself if you have t...

Welcome friends to Episode #97 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When you feel like you've been stuck in a rut, with the feeling of every day starting to look like the day before - you need a new routine. Creating routines, however, can be challenging. Life is moving so quickly, when is it a good time to ever stop all of it and start something new? My answer? Today. Yesterday. In this week's podc...