Redefining the Good Life

There comes a moment during my work with almost every one of my clients where I have to utter this sentence to them:  "You are not uniquely fucked up dear."  As much as our brains would like to make us believe that we are ALONE in our suffering and difficulties, we are the only ones who can't keep promises to ourselves and the only ones truly broken... this is patently FALSE.  Not o...

Becoming aware of the power of our thoughts is important because it is how we create EVERYTHING in our lives.  But the problem is, when we're unaware of the process, we end up creating lots that we don't actually want!  Here are three important things to understand:  1) You are not your thoughts.  2) Your thoughts create your feelings.  3) Your thoughts are… optional.  Tune in to underst...

Work is where many of us spend a huge portion of our lives and yet, when choosing what to do when we were young, we were never encouraged to ask questions like: What would I love to spend my days doing? What kinds of conversations do I want to be part of? What kind of people do I want to be surrounded by? Do I want to sit my ass all day in a chair or be out and about? etc As a result, at some poin...

Learning to have your own back no matter what is honoring that most important relationship: the one you have with yourself. And it is an essential ingredient for going after the life you want. In this episode, I break down what that looks like in the present moment as well as when you're thinking about your past and into your future. Living with regrets is one way we don't have our own b...

Have you ever decided to adopt a healthy habit and then, as soon as you had a slip-up, called it quits altogether?  And maybe you said to yourself that you’ll start again the next day and do a PERFECT job then?  The problem is, somehow tomorrow turns out to be… just like today. So it is NEVER perfect and this pattern repeats over and over and over again.  Sometimes for years.  But the worst thing...

Never has the importance of resilience been as obvious as this year! But what does resilience actually mean and how do we go about cultivating it? In this episode, I outline the simple steps to get you there. Tune in to find out why cultivating your trust in yourself and in LIFE is primordial for creating the life you want. — Other relevant episodes: The one habit to build everything else on Why y...

Stress. It's a term that gets thrown around so much that it's stopped being meaningful anymore. But do we even really appreciate what it really means if we took a more nuanced look? I think of stress as being primarily neutral. There are useful stresses, which make us stronger, and useless stresses — that just put us on the highway to burnout! And here's something even more counter-...

In this day and age most of us are more overstressed and undernourished than ever. That means having a strong self-care routine is KEY to staying grounded, not to mention achieving amazing things in your life. In this episode, I demystify just what that looks like, both for your physical and mental health. To put it very simply, self-care is the acknowledgment that your needs matter, AND building...

We humans are storytellers above all else. This is probably the biggest thing that distinguishes us from other species.  But this superpower of ours can be both a blessing and a curse.  The collective story we’re currently living in as humanity may very well be our last one… if we don’t change course soon.  In life coaching, we talk about the importance of talking about your past and telling your...

We often think that information is what allows us to change our habits. And when we still don't despite knowing better , we think there must be something wrong with us. But this couldn't be further from the truth!  The real reason we have a hard time changing our habits has nothing to do with willpower and everything to do with the fact that:  1) our brains HATE change, and 2) there&apos...

Have you ever made a promise to yourself that you didn’t keep?  Maybe it was to start waking up 30 min earlier and start journalling every morning.  To hand in your notice within the month to finally launch your dream project.  Or commit to eating well no matter what it took...  But no matter how many times you promised yourself to FINALLY change for good… it just didn’t stick.  AND you made it me...

Today I have more energy and mental clarity at 45 than I ever did in my 20s.   This goes against everything we’ve been told! You’re supposed to get worn down with age, with pregnancies, with parenthood, with the stress of having your own business…   And yet I’m living proof that it IS possible to feel better as we age.   Along with a real food breakfast (that I covered in Ep 5), SLEEP is another h...

Even though I'd sensed for a long time that something was off with our modern civilization, it wasn't until I became a mother that it all truly hit home. In this episode I take you on an intellectual and emotional journey of the surprising things I discovered about what it means to be human on the way to parenthood. At first my mind was blown when I realized how we had been SO wrong abou...

Last week was all about how the "evolutionary mismatch" is responsible for why you feel the way you do!  Today we get very specific about how that might be playing out for you and the one foundational habit to start feeling better stat: a nutritious real food breakfast.  And why is this important for the life you want to create? Think about it: you cannot create a resilient mind unless y...

Have you ever thought about the fact that you as an individual are NOT that different than someone born... 30K years ago?!⁣ ⁣ As counter-intuitive as it might sound to our modern sensibilities, this is essentially true. Evolution is a sloowww process so we have not changed that much since then, neither physiologically nor emotionally.⁣ ⁣ We humans have been roaming this earth for millions of years...

How do you know if you're not dreaming big enough? Whether you're stifling your inner voice?   This episode is for you if you've ever wanted to make a big decision like leaving your stressful job, starting your own business, moving countries, taking your family on a yearlong road trip... but felt paralyzed and stayed put way longer you would've liked.  Or perhaps you're in...

Have you ever considered that our basic human needs have actually remained unchanged in a really long time... like, MILLIONS of years??   Things like living in a non-toxic world, feeling good in your skin, having access to nutritious food, clean water and air, a deep connection with ourselves, each other and nature… these are our birthright. But unfortunately in today’s world they have become a lu...

"Redefining the Good Life" is for you if you've ever had a nagging feeling that you aren't truly living out your full potential.  In this inaugural episode, I spill the beans on how this podcast came about and why I think I'm a good person to talk about these things.  It is the story of how I kept turning unlikely events into opportunities for realizing my projects (includ...

Have you ever wondered if this was really all there was to life?  Asked yourself whether you’re really making the contribution that you came to this earth to make?  Have you noticed how the things that are most essential in life… are the ones we tend to lose sight of when we’re running the rat race?   There’s the life you will have by default if you changed nothing today.   Then there’s the life y...