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Send us Fan Mail The holidays are a stressful time for everyone.   The to-do lists are longer, the obligations are many, budgets are tight and sometimes it's difficult to take a step back and just slow down and ENJOY it. 2020 has been a tough year for everyone and I think we all deserve to take a deep breath and reward ourselves with the gift of peace and presence.  (not presents! although th...

Send us Fan Mail Join me as I chat with author Yvette Bodden about her journey back to herself after divorce. We talk about losing our identity in marriage and motherhood and the importance of getting curious about the questions that are bubbling up underneath the surface - the questions about who you are and what you want from your life. Yvette Bodden is the author of The Journey to Becoming the...

Send us Fan Mail Are you a control freak? Control shows up in so many areas of life.  Relationships, finances, parenting, work, and even your living space. Control is rooted in fear - fear of failing, fear of losing something, fear of being betrayed, being alone, fear of looking stupid, etc, etc.  Fear of uncertainty is also a big one for many people.  This time of the year can be a time that peop...

Send us Fan Mail How many self-help books have you read? How many courses and workshops have you taken? If you're like me, and a very, very, large portion of the population, your answer is likely a lot. Have you ever noticed that no matter how much you read though, nothing really changes?  You might glean some really great nuggets from a book, but that book that advertises you can change your...

Send us Fan Mail Lots of people love to run, but even if you don't, you'll get a lot out of this episode! Listen as I share some things I've learned from one of my favorite activities - running. I've learned that just like a long run, life has ups and downs.  Neither the ups nor the downs last forever, and the downs make us stronger. I've learned that the proper shoes are...

Send us Fan Mail As a mom, I know I've thrown myself into my job to the point where I have no time for myself at times.  I know it's a common thing!  In today's episode, I talk with Kayleen Johnson, who grew up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in a very conservative farming community.  Growing up, she was taught that her sole purpose in life was to be a wife and a...

Send us Fan Mail Life isn't meant to be rainbows and unicorns all the time.  We can't know happiness without sadness, right? Sometimes, life ticks along and everything feels like its firing on all cylinders, things are clicking and feeling good!  And then sometimes... well... it just doesn't. What do we do when we lose our mojo?  What do we do when we feel like things are just not c...

Send us Fan Mail Today on Real, Brave & Unstoppable, I talk with Emily Otto, Life Purpose + Job Freedom coach about finding a career that is aligned with who you are and that lights you up - whether that's working in corporate, spending more time with your family, or starting a business of your own. We talk about how, if you are feeling stuck in your 9-5 job, it is possible to quit and do...

Send us Fan Mail Journaling can be a lot of fun if you take the time to explore the many ways you can go about doing it! There are bullet journals, art journals, stream-of-consciousness journals, gratitude journals and more! Listen to Episode #19 for some reasons you should consider journaling, ideas for different ways to journal (it's not just writing down the events of your day!), how to fi...

Send us Fan Mail Capital-S Stories.  Everyone has them. Capital-S Stories are internal narratives and assumptions that we make about things, ourselves, or how the world operates.  But they may not be true - they're really just the lens you see through. Capital-S Stories can be helpful, but it's the ones that are limiting that I'm focusing on today.  The ones that keep you from being...

Send us Fan Mail When it comes to going after goals and dreams, sometimes we get a little bit ahead of ourselves and get frustrated when we aren't as far along as we'd like to be. We have a couple of choices: First, we can beat ourselves up for being inadequate, or not as far along as we think we "should" be. OR We can meet ourselves where we're at, accept our current plac...

Send us Fan Mail Do you have back to school stress? No doubt about it, school is DIFFERENT this year!  A lot of us are pretty stressed.  How are we going to juggle the schedule if we work? Will the kids learn enough? How am I going to keep my child engaged in front of a computer screen for 6 hours a day?  If I"m sending them back in person, will they get sick? Will the school disinfect proper...

Send us Fan Mail My son just turned 18!  And he is starting college! Whoa.  How did that actually happen?  Wasn't it just yesterday he was a baby? I'm feeling all the feels about having a kid that's an adult, and all of the letting go that is happening inspired me to look at the other areas in life where we all have to constantly practice letting go. In this episode, I talk about di...

Send us Fan Mail We spend money on so many things in our lives, but we tend to neglect ourselves when it comes to the intangible - our own mental health. In today's episode, I talk about why it's important to invest in our health.  It's like routine maintenance.  If we take care of ourselves, we will be much better equipped to handle the difficult times in our lives. Resources 21-Da...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, I talk about my Grandpa, who passed away last December.  He was my hero and a role model of the way I appreciate life as I grow old. My Grandpa was able to find amazement and wonder in everything in life.  He was the most positive person I have ever known.  It was his positivity and his appreciation for life that allowed him to live such a long, full l...

Send us Fan Mail This week's episode is a quickie!  Sometimes, fear is a helpful thing, but most of the time it it can really hold you back.  This week, I talk about fear and how you can get out of your "default" patterns when you're afraid so that you can get out of your comfort zone and really go after the things that you want in life. Fear doesn't have to hold you back!...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I talk about Gretchen Rubin's 4 Tendencies.  Learn a little bit about each of the 4 Tendencies and the pros and cons to each.  We all have strengths AND weaknesses, and typically we want to keep what we deem bad and get rid of what we don't like.  Life doesn't work that way.  Learn why it's important to look at your weaknesses, or the things ab...

Send us Fan Mail Pema Chodron is a Buddhist nun and one of my very favorite authors.  She teaches about meditation and the lessons of Buddhism in a very down-to-earth way that shows how these teachings can apply to our modern, everyday lives. She writes a lot about getting comfortable with uncertainty and the concept of impermanence.  Nothing is permanent - not the bad OR the good.  That's wh...

Send us Fan Mail Your mindset can alter the course of your life.  Adopt a scarcity mindset, or a fixed mindset and you view the world in a way where creativity and possibility is stifled.  Adopt an abundance, or growth, mindset and the universe will expand for you.  You will see opportunities for growth and doors of possibility opening.  Your energy will attract positive into your life and you wil...

Send us Fan Mail Setting goals is easy, but reaching them can be hard. Did you know that only 8% of people that set new year goals reach them? That's a pretty dismal statistic, but there are things you can do to be one of the people who reaches your goals every time. How?  There are several steps, which you can learn about in this episode, but the key is knowing your WHY, or your compelling r...

Send us Fan Mail These days, our society seems to view perfectionism as a badge of honor.  But there is a difference between striving for perfection and healthy striving. In this episode, I talk about what perfectionism is, and how to know if you are one.  I also talk about the ways that being a perfectionist can be harmful to your well-being, as well as some strategies for loosening up a bit. Fre...

Send us Fan Mail As a coach, I help my clients with limiting beliefs all the time.  But, what I've learned recently is that a lot of people don't necessarily know what it means to have limiting beliefs, and it also doesn't occur to them that they actually have them. In today's episode, I'm diving into some of the most common limiting beliefs and how they might show up in y...

Send us Fan Mail Do you ever feel like you're rolling out of bed in the morning, dreading the same old routine?  Maybe you feel like you're going through the motions.  You can't seem to find a spark in your life? In this episode, Kortney talks about the difference between really living your life to the fullest and just existing, making it by day after day without feeling fulfilled o...

Send us Fan Mail There are a lot of folks out there that aren't familiar with what life coaches REALLY do.  For a while, coaching has been viewed as some kind of fluffy, woo-woo profession that isn't a necessity. Well, that is SO not the case, and I'm here to talk to you about what life coaches really do and how coaching can change your life.   I hired my own coach to help me figure...

Send us Fan Mail We've all been thrust into this pandemic situation really quickly and we've had to adapt on the fly.  This has caused a LOT of stress and overwhelm for us.  In this episode, Kortney talks about things you can do to deal with the overwhelm and uncertainty that we're experiencing right now. Support the show Want more? For more information about the podcast, visit www....