Own Your Best Life Podcast

Welcome friends to Episode #96 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. The trap we all run into as we start to take more ownership of our lives and careers is the doing syndrome. We work more and do more so that we can have and own more. Yet, there is a ceiling to this more in the sense of time. We start realizing that we can't add more hours to our day so then we have to choose. What do we want to spe...

Welcome friends to Episode #95 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. The more full our life becomes, the more we want to simplify, to lessen and to organize. With so many demands, requests and things in our lives, we feel the clutter begin to overwhelm us - so we organize. Today, we are going to take the first steps in organizing your life.   LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING : https://mayempson.com/conta ct...

Welcome friends to Episode #94 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Something happens when we hit our mid-30's, 40's and 50's. We start to think about the next chapter of our lives and our careers. We wonder what we should do next and if it's too late to do something else with our time. Maybe it's because you're experiencing burnout or maybe it's because you're bored and lost your passion. Either wa...

Welcome friends to Episode #93 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you're an achiever, you likely are very good at thinking and using your brain a lot. You also might be feeling that there's a limit to using your thinking and that you can overthink and rationalize almost anything. You want to learn how to trust yourself and your decisions. You know you need to do it in order to step into that ne...

Welcome friends to Episode #92 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When you begin to stretch yourself to do things in new and different ways, it often feels like your relationships get in the way. What if people don't support you and your new ways of being and thinking? What if people don't seem to understand what you need and desire? What if other people are openly critical about how much time you...

Welcome friends to Episode #91 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. As we reflect on the last year and our intentions for a new year, it's normal to wonder if we are fully living up to our potential. We look around us as the pandemic has changed our lives and wonder if our emotional, physical, mental and spiritual practices are truly serving us in navigating this uncertainty. What should we focus on...

Welcome friends to Episode #90 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. As we begin a new year, we often evaluate what we want to have more or less of in our lives. It's a great time to reflect on who we want to be and set some concrete goals for ourselves. It can be challenging, however, to see what is possible to actually achieve and change in your life without some guidance. If we already knew what t...

Welcome friends to Episode #89 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. The average person changes their career 5-7 times in their lifetime. That's not 5-7 "jobs''. That is 5-7 "careers". If you've been thinking about changing your career, you are not alone. This past year, around 50% of workers are actively looking for a different line of work. Finding or creating work that aligns with your interests a...

Welcome friends to Episode #88 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We need energy to sustain us physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually no matter what pursuit we are engaging in. If you're in the pursuit to live a life where you feel more healthy, alive and like you are purposeful in your work and personal life, you'll want to understand energy better. One of the things we often struggle...

Welcome friends to Episode #87 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Sometimes, events happen in our lives that shake everything up. This happened with today's guest, Laila Tarraf. LEARN MORE ABOUT COACHING: https://mayempson.com/contact MAY EMPSON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/mayempson OWN YOUR BEST LIFE SHOWNOTES: https://mayempson.com/87-strong-like-water-with-laila-tarraf/

Welcome friends to Episode #86 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Any time that we begin to step into a new arena of growth, scope or environment we have to cross the bridge of leadership. Leadership of ourselves and of others. We would love to feel confident to lead ourselves and others but how do we do that? Today, we're going to understand what it takes to build confidence as a leader.   LEARN...

Welcome friends to Episode #85 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When we get caught up in the hustle and bustle of life, we often miss these moments of enjoying ourselves. Especially during the holiday season when the list of to-do's are higher than usual. What do we do when there are so many traditions, expectations and plans in place? We create our own. Today, I'll share what you can do to star...

Welcome friends to Episode #84 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We often have the best intentions when it comes to making a change in our lives. Whether we're making shifts to our health, wealth, work or relationships we decide to do something new and different for a reason. Why then do we start to plateau or even revert back to old behaviors that don't serve us? Today, we'll discuss 4 ways to m...

Welcome friends to Episode #83 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the first things that happens, when you start on the path of figuring out what's next is thinking about your goals. Sometimes, we're so mired in our day to day lives that we have trouble articulating what we even want next. We have some ideas but aren't sure if they're real. Maybe we feel like we just don't want to keep doing...

Welcome friends to Episode #82 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. If you've been trying to streamline your life and focus on doing what's most important to you, you'll likely have thought about making a shift in your career. Yet, where we often get stuck is in this transition. How do we find what we love? How do we get paid for it? Will the grass actually be greener on the other side? Today, we'll...

Welcome friends to Episode #81 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. We all dream of the freedom of living life on our own terms. Yet, we know that we aren't being our true selves in all situations. We seem to live for other people's expectations of us or we desire validation that we are actually doing ok. What would it look like if you were truly yourself? What are 10 things you can do today to be y...

Welcome friends to Episode #80 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Do you chalk up seemingly random occurrences to coincidence? Or do you call them synchronicities? What is synchronicity? When we start living in the world of intangibles more than the world of tangibles, we often start seeing synchronicity appear. You may call them signs or maybe you call them coincidences. Either way, we'll discuss...

Welcome friends to Episode #79 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. Why is it easier for you to see other people's purposes than it is to see your own? I received this question recently from one of the participants in my Spiritual Achiever Leadership Coaching program and I wanted to answer it here because it highlights an important aspect about purpose that will help you as you discover your own. LE...

Welcome friends to Episode #78 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the ways that we stop ourselves from truly achieving our goals or moving forward in our lives is fear. We fear that we are going to fail or lose something like money, status or time in the process. What happens though if we live our lives in fear of fear? We stay where we are. So much of what's going to be good for us in term...

Welcome friends to Episode #77 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. No matter how motivated you are to do anything, there will always be a point when that motivation begins to falter. The drive to do this new habit, venture, behavior change, relationship or project isn't as strong anymore. You want to give up. What do you do when you want to give up? How do you know if it's time to give something up...

Welcome friends to Episode #76 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There comes a time in our life when we begin to wonder who we are. We wonder what we want to do with our lives, how we want to live our lives and the kind of person we want to be. This often happens at moments of transition. We are somewhat dissatisfied with life or we know that there is more to life than what we are experiencing an...

Welcome friends to Episode #75 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. When it comes to the study of human behavior, one of the most fascinating topics is behavioral economics. Why do we do the things that we do around money? This level of self-awareness is the first step in identifying money beliefs and patterns that are keeping us from enjoying, creating and spending money in healthy and productive w...

Welcome friends to Episode #74 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There comes a time in our life when we begin to wonder who we are. We wonder what we want to do with our lives, how we want to live our lives and the kind of person we want to be. This often happens at moments of transition. We are somewhat dissatisfied with life or we know that there is more to life than what we are experiencing an...

Welcome friends to Episode #73 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. One of the ways that we can help ourselves gain more clarity is to create new standards. We often think of the worst case scenario, not the best case scenario when we are attempting to do something new. We plan for the worst - but we're not planning for the best. If we really want to create sustainable success on our terms, we must...

Welcome friends to Episode #72 of the Own Your Best Life Podcast. There's a strange thing that happens as we achieve more results or we make progress. We plateau. We stop getting excited or engaged or driven by what we're doing and we start to coast. When we start to coast, things do become easier but we also feel this sense of unease about how we're utilizing our time and privilege. We're wonderi...