Secrets for an Awesome Life

Have you ever been stuck in indecision? What would happen if you were stuck there forever? The time it takes for you to decide to take action directly correlates to the likelihood that you'll stick with the action you're taking, so once you have all the information in front of you, make a choice and take some action!

Are you letting your past determine your future? You don't have to. Even if you did something pretty bad, like setting school property on fire... In this episode I have on my first guest! Fellow Firmly Founded coach Ben Pugh (Parents, totally check out his awesome podcast "Impact: Parenting With Perspective")

What if there was a magic potion, an elixir, you could take that would turn you into a super-powered human?? Guess what, there IS! And it'll give you the best kind of superpowers... the REAL kind.

In this bonus episode I not only tell you how to accomplish your biggest hopes, dreams, and goals for 2021, but I also tell you how to win a $50, $100, or a $150 Amazon gift card! Double prizes!!

Are you staying comfortable or are you pushing yourself to go a little further. Do a little more? That is the only place you find growth in your life. In the zone between the comfort of doing what you're capable of and the frustration of trying to do too much. How much time do you spend in the zone?

What is your most prized possession? Mine is my Obol. It's a cereal bowl that stops soggy cereal from happening! It's amazing. But, what is the human race's most prized possession? I would say it's our prefrontal cortex. It stops us from eating soggy thoughts. Are you using yours??

Life changing experiences are awesome and I suggest having as many of them as possible. But, have you ever noticed that not long after the experience, life usually doesn't seem all that changed anymore? In this episode I talk about how to get the most out of life changing experiences and I share one of my favorite parables of all time, the Parable of the Crow.

I found a new lesson from this old story. There are actually two versions of the wise and the foolish man building their houses on varying levels of stable ground. The lesson I pulled from the slightly lesser-known version blew my mind. Maybe it will blow your mind, too. Maybe not. Depends if you're wise or foolish...

Life is often compared to a race. If life is a race, then the pit stops are the key to success in life. In this episode, I talk about the many types of pit stops and crew chiefs teens and young adults have in their life. Coming in for a pit stop with the right people can help them run at top speed when they get back out on the track of life.

If it's taking you longer to get to where you want to go, or you're struggling with the journey, then you might have some stowaway beliefs in your brain. A stowaway belief is a thought that makes reaching your goal more difficult, and is oftentimes the source of the most pressing problems in your life. This episode goes over how to find them and how to throw them overboard.

I coach lots of teens and young adults who say they get distracted easily. Whether it's because of something diagnosable, like ADHD, or whether they're just simply prone to distraction like the majority of people these days, the main issue with not being able to focus is not having enough interest in whatever it is you are needing to focus on. What if you could create interest and therefore create...

Do you have a passion, a hobby, a dream that you want to pursue but for some reason you're not? Maybe it was something that someone said. Maybe it's how you are afraid other people might view you. Maybe it's because you think you won't be any good at it. Whatever the reason, this episode drops three truths that will help you stop stopping yourself from being the person you were born to be.

Can you have a peaceful panic attack? Be calm about how angry you are? Be satisfied with your frustration? I submit to you that you can. Not only is it possible, but not stacking negative emotions is the secret for an awesome life that will keep you feeling in control when your emotions seem out of control.

We all start something new at some point. A new grade, a new job, or a new relationship, for example. How you go into it has a big effect on how you come out of it. In this episode I go over the five mindsets to have at the start of any new endeavor.

They say successful people do things unsuccessful people don't want to do. One of those things is failing. The ability to fail and not have it stop you, debilitate you, cause you to give up on your dreams, is the true secret of success. When people fail to succeed it's because they do not know how to successfully fail. You heard me, there is a right way and a wrong way to fail. Are you failing at...

Our brains are amazing and they want to help us out. So they will see things the way we want to see it, find the things we want to find. Whether we are aware that we "want" to find it or not. What are you looking for in the world? Hate? Danger? Doubt? You'll find it. What about love? Safety? Faith? You'll find that, too. It's all there to be found. The question is, what are you looking for?

We all have things we don't want to give up. Even if we know we should. Video games. Too many hours on Netflix TikTok or YouTube. Attitudes. Hatred. The person you might be dating. I get it. It's hard to give up some things that we enjoy, even if it's bad for us in the long run. But what if something is waiting to replace it. Something better. Something lasting. Something...real?

We are all in a transition period right now: SUMMER! Schools are closed, even though they've been closed for about four months now, and young adults are transitioning to the next chapter of their lives. What can you do to make this transition a transformation? To not just move on to the next level of school, but to move up to the next level of you?

I'm just going to say it: most people are viewing relationships wrong. It's not your fault, it's the way movies and TV portray them. BUT, all that is about to change today. Right now. In this podcast. I will present to you a life-changing, mind-altering, power-inducing way to look at relationships. Be warned, once you hear this, you'll never look at relationships the same again...and that will pro...

Nancy ends up trapped in her car at the bottom of the ocean floor. What she does to get out will astound you. There are two types of action you can be taking toward your goals and dreams: massive action and passive action. In this episode, I talk about what the difference is and what that might look like for teens. I also go over the unpleasant feelings that stop us from taking action.

Our brain wants to separate things into simple, clear containers. So, oftentimes when there is a complicated issue (or even a not-so-complicated one) our brain will paint an "Us vs. Them" picture. In this episode Joey talks to teens about what that perception might be doing in their lives and how to change it, if they want to.

I process the world around me by writing. I wrote this in response to the civil unrest and chaos going on in America right now. My next episode will go into the symbolism and meaning of the poem. Though, hopefully like any good literary work, you can derive your own meanings from it.

Going from high school to whatever is next is the craziest, most drastic transition of anyone's life. In this episode, I talk to teens who have just graduated. I tell them the most important thing to realize and 5 things to keep in mind as they go forward to college, career, or wherever their journey takes them.

Life is rarely a clear cut story with all the details neatly filled in. Our brains naturally bridge the gaps of what isn't clear with narrative about other people's motives, our position in the world, and what the future will be. Teens' brains, along with the rest of us, sometimes choose to write negative narrative to fill in those blank pages. That negative narrative changes the way we feel and u...

No teen wants to be walked all over or taken advantage of. We don't want to feel weak or like we're a push over. But, we are afraid if we try to be kind or give people the benefit of the doubt, then they'll step all over us. However, in order to stop feeling like we are being walked on, other people don't have to do anything. We have to do something. Two things, actually. Change our view and enact...