Secrets for an Awesome Life

Teens, you are wealthier than most adults in one particular area: TIME. When you're young, you have time wealth and as you get older (generally) you trade time for money. But time is FAR more valuable than money. Because you can never get more of it. How are you spending your time?

The ability to separate out signals from noise is uber useful. Take your thoughts for example, there are a lot of them bouncing around in there. All negative thoughts are noise and we shouldn't give any attention to them. Some thoughts are signals, things we could address and focus on to help us become who we want to be. Are you spending too much energy on the noise of negative thoughts?

We can't stand to be bored!! But, what if we could? What if awesome things like creation, inspiration, and connection were all achieved by being able to be bored. Today, fellow Firmly Founded coach Ali Terry and I talk about tips and the benefits of being good at being bored. I also start the Boredom Challenge!! Listen to the episode for the instructions on how to complete the boredom challenge, t...

I know you know that social media isn't real life... but how often do you forget that? How often to do make decisions or choose thoughts based on something you saw on social media? Special guest Sami Halvorsen of the Teen Life Coach Podcast is on today and we talk about how to not be duped by pictures and likes on social media.   Join Sami's summer classes that start next week:   Connected and In...

Have any villains in your life? You know, people who are just the worst and make your day miserable? Or maybe just people who you dislike a lot? Well, that person isn't actually a villain, you're just labeling them as one. You created them. And I'd wager a guess that the villain you created is probably one dimensional. If you've seen any bad movies you'd know that one dimensional villains are the...

Working more and working harder is not always the recipe for doing well in school. There are tricks we can do to be more efficient when it comes to being successful, not just in school, but in life in general. This means making the choice to know your goals are available to you to achieve. You can decide that your goals are possible, just like you can decide that they are not possible. In this epi...

SPECIAL EPISODE! I have a conversation with Jill Freestone and Cheryl Cardall about the different "levels" of anxiety and what you could do to help with each.

Emotions can seem like wild animals. But shooting a wild animal because you don't have control of it isn't a good option. Instead of trying to eliminate it, tame it. The secret for an awesome life today is "Domesticate your emotions, don't eliminate them."

Sometimes it's hard to get the things you want. It's almost like they are running away from you as you chase after them. Friends, dating, grades, and even faith. There is a reason why this happens. What we chase will run. So how do we get these things we want? That's today's secret for an awesome life.

Feeling pressure can often feel like you’re in an invisible prison. Pressures from other people, or sometimes even from your own expectations can cause us to freeze up. But it’s important to take a step back and ask “does the source of this pressure actually matter?”. In many cases, you’ll realize that no, it does not matter. Escaping this invisible prison called pressure will help us succeed and...

Divorce can be tough for everyone involved, especially the kids. Today I have on a special guest, author and 11-year-old Daisy Freestone who wrote a book called "A Kid's Guide to Divorce and Life After." We talk about her book and today's secret for an awesome life: your parent's divorce is NOT YOUR FAULT. Also, I will be giving away three copies of her book that comes out today! To enter, find my...

We all know failure is okay, even though we still hate it. But did you know that failure is not just okay, but IMPORTANT?? Ali joins Joey in this episode as they talk about three reasons why failure is super important.

Social media, and media in general often portray some of the people we look up to as living a “perfect life”. We see the highlights of their life that often show an unrealistic lifestyle that that person is living. This is not quite the case, everybody is imperfect. That’s what today’s secret is, everyone is imperfect and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, to be human is to be imperfect. S...

That's right, I said it. Grades. Don't. Matter. Does a part of you want to flip over a table because I said that? Why? I share two lists of the top things employers want in who they hire and you know what? Grades aren't on either. So, I'll say it again: Grades don't matter! Not as much as this...

Do you believe that you are valuable? Just as you are? Some people don't believe that. But today's secret for an awesome life is this: you are valuable. I talk about the two reasons people have a hard time with this.

Influence is powerful. It can make you friends and money. But the best way to create it is counter-intuitive... that's means it doesn't make sense at first. But, if you follow this secret you will be able to create more friends AND money.

The first step to creating money, which is this month's theme, is creating VALUE. Many people have it backwards when it comes to the value they provide and the payment they receive. It limits them. But, as taught in the fabulous book "The Go Giver," the first Law of Stratospheric Success is the Law of Value. Ben and I go into that in detail in this episode and tell teens and young adults how they...

Don’t you wish you could create money and have it appear out of thin air? Well, we can’t do that, but what we can do is switch our mindset to allow us to find more money in our lives. That’s what the secret is this week, switching our mindset so that we can see the money that is available to us, to allow us to obtain it.  This is the first part of an ongoing series where we will be talking about f...

Ben and I are thinking about doing a live event in the Utah area this summer, 2022, for teens and their parents. This is what it would be...

Sometimes relationships with friends or the person you're dating can feel crushing, especially when they are doing something that you don't like. Setting boundaries is crucial to maintaining healthy relationships or ending ones that aren't meant to be.

Some relationships crush our souls. You know the kind. A needy friend. An annoying coworker. A messy roommate. A controlling parent. BUT, did you know that you can even rock those relationships? We call it crushing crushing relationships.

You are crushing on someone hard but don't know how to ask them out. I've been there. Let's be honest, we've all been there. So, how do you ask them out?? In this episode I have a special guest on to help me tell teens and young adults the best way to ask out their crush.

I crush five relationship myths that are holding teens and young adults back from having healthy, amazing relationships with friends, family, and the people they date. Ali Terry, one of the coaches with me in Firmly Founded, makes her debut appearance.

This week we continue the “Teenage Carol” story with Part Three: The Ghost of Teenage Present. Eben goes to visit some recent events in his life, to get a better look at what others’ true perception of him was - which is much different than what Eben had thought.  This brings us to today’s secret, we often assume what other people think of us. Often when we think they dislike us or something simil...

This week we continue the “Teenage Carol” story with Part Three: The Ghost of Teenage Present. Eben goes to visit some recent events in his life, to get a better look at what others’ true perception of him was - which is much different than what Eben had thought.  This brings us to today’s secret, we often assume what other people think of us. Often when we think they dislike us or something simil...