Real, Brave & Unstoppable

Send us Fan Mail I'm on retreat this week, working with several amazing, courageous women who want to change their lives into something better. But in order to have something better - something new - you must let go of the old. The old that keeps you stuck in your constricted bubble. Listen to this episode as I talk about the process of letting go of what holds you back and rising into new po...

Send us Fan Mail This week I dive into the energy of abundance vs. the energy of scarcity.  You'll learn: the difference between abundance and scarcity and how it shows up in your life how to recognize you're in scarcity about the law of attraction and how you can make it work for you (it's not all woo!) ways you can shift from scarcity into abundance Visit realbraveunstoppable.com...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Episode 100! 🎉🎉🎉 This week I talk about why your self-concept is so important when it comes to creating the life you really want. I also share one of my favorite tools to build a positive self-concept. In this episode you'll learn: what self-concept is why it's important to carry a positive self-concept how to create a positive self-concept how your self-co...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to season 3! I've been on hiatus for the last month or so, spending extra time on my upcoming retreat. By the way, if you're feeling like the summer left you overwhelmed and exhausted and you didn't have nearly enough fun,, you should definitely check that out. kortneyrivard.com/retreat In this week's episode, I am diving into our processes and pat...

Send us Fan Mail Letting go is one of the hardest things for humans to learn how to do. I mean, let's face it - we want what we want. It's frustrating when we can't have it or don't get it. We have ideas of how we think things should be and we have an extremely hard time letting go of those ideas. In this episode, I talk about 7 ways you can practice letting go and surrendering...

Send us Fan Mail Are you one of those people who likes to make the simplest things complicated? I've been there! That's kind of my default way of handling things and it used to frustrate me SO much.  But, what if things being hard or complicated was a necessary part of the process? When things feel hard or sticky, we figure stuff out. We are called to create new ways of doing things. Oft...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back for episode #96 - another "MVP" episode! This week, I'm replaying one of my favorite episodes filled with quotes from Brene Brown. She's one of my favorite authors, and I love her work on authenticity, courage, vulnerability, and connection. Today, I'm sharing some of my favorite quotes from her books and some of my own commentary on those ide...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the MVP series of Real, Brave, & Unstoppable episodes! The podcast is on "hiatus" through the beginning of August, and in that time, I'm re-airing some of the most popular episodes of all time. Listen to this episode, (originally #54) Why You Need to Change Your Thinking to Change Your Results === RESOURCES === Rise: The Live Retreat Experience Leave...

Send us Fan Mail I'm on hiatus for a few weeks while I work on my September retreat and accompanying workshop series, so I've decided to re-air some of the most popular episodes of all time. In this episode, a re-air of the very first Real, Brave, & Unstoppable episode, "My Real, Brave, & Unstoppable Story", I share my own story, my journey, and my inspiration for start...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about how we all live within the confines of a "box", (aka your comfort zone) to some degree and how you can't live a truly exquisite life unless you're willing to do some work to step out of the box. In this episode you'll learn: what the box is made of and why it exists why it's so hard to step outside of it why it's abs...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm talking about the journey from feeling lost and overwhelmed with your situation to feeling good about your life and feeling happiness and peace. Getting there isn't always easy, but working towards neutral thinking about your situation will help you feel better faster. Getting to neutral doesn't feel as daunting as going from one extreme to the...

Send us Fan Mail This week I have Heather Aardema on the show. She's the founder of the School of Living Lighter .  She's an optimistic build-er-upper, momma of two boys, mountain biker, and fan of homemade and not-perfect.  She's a board-certified coach and expert in behavior change and guides her clients toward weight-loss breakthroughs by helping them clear the clutter—in their m...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 90: This week on the podcast, I'm talking about the first in 5-step process of reaching your own personal summit after a setback like a divorce, breakup, or other life transition. I recap the 5 stages/phases: Getting Your Bearings - Finding where you are on your "trail map" Surrendering to your situation - accepting that the path you WERE on might not be the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm talking with relationship coach and author, Marilyn Sutherland. We talk about loving yourself first and how the relationship with yourself is the most important one you can have. Starting here is the foundation for all of your other relationships. We're also diving into Marilyn's book, Why Did You Load the Dishwasher Like That: 9 Whopping Mistak...

Send us Fan Mail Part 3 of a 3-part series This week I'm wrapping up the 3-part series, Real + Brave = Unstoppable with an episode about how being authentic and courageous are the key ingredients to being unstoppable in your life.  You'll learn:  the 5 stages of growing into authenticity, courage, and your bigger and better life how to create a life from the INSIDE out so you'll nev...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 of a 3-part series This week, I talk about courage. You'll learn: what courage means - both heroic courage and ORDINARY courage why you need courage to be authentic and be in your truth why it's hard to find courage sometimes ways you can cultivate courage in your own life so you can show up and be fully seen and create your big, epic, unstoppable life. === RESOUR...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I decided to re-air one of my favorite episodes (and the MOST DOWNLOADED episode on the podcast EVER... hands down!) Episode #10: Lessons Learned from Pema Chödrön contains some valuable nuggets of wisdom! Pema is a Buddhist nun and author whose work was instrumental in teaching me that I was creating my own suffering by attaching to all the things that I thought I &quo...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of a 3 part series: REAL + BRAVE = UNSTOPPABLE! I really believe that the secret to living an unstoppable life is starting with yourself. Knowing who you are at your core and having the courage to show up in life that way. In this episode, I talk about what it means to be authentic and why it's really hard sometimes. I also share 7 ways YOU can cultivate authenticity i...

Send us Fan Mail Feeling big emotions can feel uncomfortable and sometimes even scary. But it's not helpful to push your emotions away. So how do you handle emotional overwhelm? In this episode you'll learn: what emotions are and why we have them why all emotions are neutral - they don't have a good/bad label until we give them one a few things you can do to be able to handle your e...

Send us Fan Mail At one point or another, life happens and we fall flat on our faces.  Hard times happen and we have no choice but to get back up and keep moving forward. But this can feel hard! It's not easy to pick yourself back up after a major life setback. What do you need to do it? You need the desire to persevere, and you also need resilience. Plus, you need some grit to give you the s...

Send us Fan Mail After my divorce, I had a really hard time coping with the feelings of loneliness.  I was even a little bit afraid of being alone when my mind started running away from me with thoughts like "you'll be alone for the rest of your life" or "only losers end up being alone" (neither are true!). Over the years, I've learned a thing or two about coping with...

Send us Fan Mail You only get one shot at this thing called life, and in order to live it well, you need to give yourself permission to live it YOUR way.  This week on the podcast, I talk about how you can give YOURSELF permission to live the life you really want.  There are a ton of things that we don't give ourselves permission for.  Permission to: be happy be wrong not know the answer be o...

Send us Fan Mail *PLEASE NOTE: This episode has a couple of spots with profane language. Best not to listen when kiddos are in earshot!* Speedbumps in life happen to the best of us and oftentimes an upset makes us feel lost. In this episode, I talk about how you're not actually "lost" - you just need to dig beneath the surface of all of the conditioning, limiting beliefs, Stories, e...

Send us Fan Mail Join me for this incredible conversation with my colleague Ann Becks about claiming the person you truly are and showing up in the world that way unapologetically. We're giving you a sneak peek into our upcoming FREE online summit, UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU: A 1-Day Event for Women, where you'll learn to stop settling and living the life you REALLY want to live. On Thursday,...

Send us Fan Mail If you've ever been through a divorce, breakup, or other loss in life, you know that it's a process to recover. This week, I talk about the 5 steps I take my clients through when we work together to rebuild their lives after a divorce, breakup, or other life setbacks. You'll learn how to re-orient yourself so you can take the first steps toward recovery, why letting...