Real, Brave & Unstoppable

Send us Fan Mail Episode 52: Trusting Your Inner Knowing This week on the podcast, I'm talking about your "inner knowing", or your intuition. What is your inner knowing? How do you know when it's speaking to you? How do you trust it? I'll be talking about all of these questions and more.  Listen in to learn how you can start to listen to your inner knowing to guide you thr...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 51: On Badassery and Self-Confidence What do you see when you picture a badass? Someone with ripped jeans and a leather jacket? Someone tough and intimidating? This week I'm sharing with you what I think a badass is (hint, it's not tough and loud and intimidating!) and how to incorporate more badassery and self-confidence into your life. === RESOURCES === Do you...

Send us Fan Mail Ep 50: Celebrating Your Wins - ALL of Them! Episode 50!!! It's easy to downplay our little wins along the way to a bigger goal.  It might even feel silly to be celebrating something that doesn't really seem like an "achievement". Today, I'm talking about why celebrating ALL of your victories - the big ones AND the small ones - is key to your success in rea...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 49: Accepting Your Body There's a lot of talk about body positivity these days, but sometimes an easier middle step is body acceptance.   This week, I'm talking about body acceptance and ways that you can work toward feeling neutral about your body. Once you're there, you can begin the work toward body  positivity. === Resources === Join the Facebook group H...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 48: How Your Thoughts Affect Your Relationships In this episode, I'm talking about relationships and an entirely different way of approaching them.  Your relationships are really just your thoughts about the other person, and when you take the time to look at things this way, you might see some big shifts. === Resources === Join my Facebook group HERE Got questions ab...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 47: 10 Crappy Reasons People Neglect Their Self-Care In this episode, I'm sharing with you 10 crappy thoughts people have that stop them from investing in their own self-care. The 10 thoughts I talk about in this episode were inspired by conversations I've had with my own coaching clients, as well as conversations I've had with people about self-care and the...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 46: Possibility Thinking In this episode, I talk about thinking in terms of what's  possible, as opposed to your limits dictating what you're able to do. Problems present opportunities for possibilities.  And there are possibilities that aren't even in our awareness or comprehension yet.  But we can change how we think about things - shift our focus to ask &...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 45: The Impact of Getting Unstuck In this episode, I talk about what being "stuck" means, why we get stuck and how to get unstuck. I also talk about all the ways doing the work to get unstuck will impact your life, your self concept and the lives of the people around you. === RESOURCES === Schedule a free consultation to chat about how coaching can help YOU get u...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 44: Life's Beautiful Messes --- Content Warning --- *Please note that portions of this episode may be triggering to some people.  Depression, addiction, eating disorders and suicide are mentioned.  Please take care of yourself and ask for help if you need it.* On today's episode, I talk with author, podcast host, and co-parenting coach Carly Israel. We talk about...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 43 In this episode, I talk about the question we always get asked when we first meet someone new:  "What do you do?" It's easy to see how we can strongly identify with WHAT we do as who we are, but that's not the whole story.  Listen to this episode to hear two better questions to ask ourselves in order to create a life that's authentic and aligned...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 42: Taming Your Inner Mean Girl On today's episode, I talk about THAT friend - your inner mean girl -  aka, inner critic, inner bully, ego - you know, the friend that always acts like she has your back, but she never really does?   Your inner mean girl is the one who tells you shouldn't wear that dress because you look fat in it, or you're not going to get a...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 41: How to Feel Your Feelings Sometimes, the last thing we want to do is feel our feelings.  They can be downright uncomfortable.  They can  hurt. Today, I'm talking about why feeling your feelings and letting them move through you is SO important.  Every feeling has a message.  Sometimes that message is to just sit with the feeling until it dissipates.  Sometimes, th...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 40 Today, I'm talking about the quote "How we do one thing is how we do everything". What this means is that the beliefs we have in one area of our life tend to be similar in all areas of our life, causing us to repeat similar patterns across all of those areas. So, it's important to check the stories and beliefs you have, as well as the belief in YOURS...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about the danger of getting comfortable with the word "normal". Our idea of normal is what we're comfortable with and is based on beliefs we've inherited from childhood and accumulated from society and the media as we've grown up.  When we identify as "normal", we're excluding a huge group of other unique, amazing ind...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, I'm talking about the unattainable standards that perfectionists set for themselves and how this is approaching self-improvement from a place of "not enough" or scarcity rather than self-love. It's possible to love something and still want to change it - you don't have to keep a drill sergeant in your brain to "whip yourself into shap...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I'm talking all about perfectionism.  What it is, how it shows up in my own life and how it's different from healthy striving. Listen to this episode and learn some of the cognitive distortions that keep people stuck in perfectionism. Throughout the month of February, I'll be talking about perfectionism on the podcast, social media and in my email n...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 36 In this episode of Real, Brave & Unstoppable, I talk about how changing your thoughts can create better outcomes or results in your life. When you experience something, it's a circumstance - a fact.  Our brain then assigns it a meaning. We  think  something about it.   Our thought causes an emotion, which causes us to act a certain way.  The way we act determin...

Send us Fan Mail If your dream were to come true tomorrow, would you be ready for it? As we work toward a goal or dream, we're literally becoming a different person every day. You're learning and growing and evolving into a future version of yourself - the one who has the skills, knowledge, and habits to inhabit the space where your goals and dreams are already reached. You need to be re...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 34: We're faced with many "forks in our paths" in our lifetimes.  Sometimes we choose a path that feels like the "right" choice, and sometimes we choose one that's more difficult. In this episode, I talk about a recent hiking experience where I reached a fork in the trail.  But I didn't stop to take in all of the information so I'd k...

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Send us Fan Mail Episode 32: Goals and Creating YOUR 2021 Experience It's almost here! The new year.  2021.  A fresh start, a clean slate! In today's episode, I talk about setting goals in the new year.  Not your ordinary goal-setting process.  Often, people set goals that are kind of random and sound great, but they aren't really aligned with what's important to them.  So, the...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #31: Believing in Magic My daughter just turned 11.  In the past year, she learned the tooth fairy isn't real, and I'm pretty sure she knows the truth about Santa.  She's asking a lot of questions! The other night, I was trying to ask questions that would help me figure out FOR SURE if she still believed or not.  She won't say, but I'm still pretty...

Send us Fan Mail This week on Real, Brave & Unstoppable, I talk about a different way to look at your progress. It's a marathon, not a sprint! Each day you are becoming a different person - closer and closer to the future self who has achieved your goal. It's easy to forget that a little progress each day adds up to BIG results. Don't forget that progress does not get made in a...

Send us Fan Mail Colleen MacDonald is an entrepreneur and elite ultrarunner (she runs races that are longer than 26.2 miles!).   On this episode of Real, Brave & Unstoppable, we talk about so many things, including:  getting out of a rut when things don't go as planned keeping your mind open to possibilities finding yourself and having the courage to show up as yourself every day picking...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is all about gratitude.  Why it works, and how to practice it.  I always tell the story about how my mom gave me a gratitude journal a long time ago when I was going through a hard time.  The journal had a space to write down five things I was grateful for each day. At the time, I rolled my eyes and thought there was no way that simply writing down a few things I was...