Simply Resilient - A Podcast For Military Wives

Have you ever been at your wits end with your kids no matter how hard you search for more patience? Then an opportunity for a little getaway comes up and you snatch it up in hopes that if you can get a small break from them that you will find that patient mama that you know is in there. Only to be super discouraged when not long after you return from your getaway and you're reunited with your amaz...

Brad is back in this episode as a cohost to help me share some fun experiences from our time at Fort Rucker Alabama in 2011 and 2012. He just returned from Fort Rucker after completing "flight school part 2" and now is trained to fly Apache helicopters. When we went as a family to "flight school part 1" for a year and a half, he learned how to fly Blackhawk helicopters. Having him there these last...

Meet Michele. She is an amazing military mom who supported her son through his military career. She is now a mindset coach who works with professional athletes helping them live their lives more intentionally and decide who they want to be in the world beyond their identity as an athlete. She has found a lot of similarities in the mental lives and mental struggles of athletes and soldiers. Listen...

Have you ever fallen into the trap of being able to believe you are a good mom if your kids get could grades? The problem with that plan is then if your kids don't get good grades (which is completely possible and mostly out of your control) then you no longer have permission from yourself to believe you're a good mom... In today's episode I explain my cupcake analogy in detail with tons of exampl...

Life is a classroom, not a test. We are put on this earth to have the opportunity to grow through challenges. The sooner we open up to this part of life, the sooner we improve our overall experience with the hard times and gain so much more in the process.

Today we celebrate our son Keith and his special place in our family. Five years ago today we had a stillborn baby. I was almost 6 months pregnant with a healthy baby boy when there was a cord accident and he passed away inside of me. I am a sharer, I believe in sharing, and today I'm honored to share with you some of my personal accounts from those days leading up to his delivery and the days tha...

Meet my new friend Stephanie Allen. I had the privilege of interviewing her a couple of months ago and I'm so happy to finally be sharing with you her insights. She is a seasoned military spouse with her husband being in the military for 28 years. Together they have done 11 moves and 6 deployments. Stephanie is also a life coach and works with military spouses who want to create home businesses th...

Are you curious about the similarities and differences between life coaching and therapy? Tune in to hear my take on it along with some other great references on this topic. Also, enjoy an interview that I did with my big brother Ben who has had a lot of experiences getting help in his life from both kinds of mental health professionals.

Enjoy this Bonus Episode where I coach one of my clients about the affects of the Coronavirus in her personal and professional life. Fair warning: the audio of the recording of our session is pretty terrible. This episode is definitely worth listening to, but the audio makes it a B-, and I'm ok with that :)

Listen in to learn why we are perfectly prepared and ready for the Coronavirus. It feels that our uncertainty in life has increased in the last few weeks, but in reality our life is always 50/50: 50% certain 50% uncertain. Also, the way to feel more certain is to create that feeling with your thoughts. We mistakenly think that the way we feel certain and prepared is to take tons of action, but if...

In this episode you will get to know my new friend Wendi Wray who is an amazing woman. She is a veteran, a military spouse, a mom, and a life coach. I really enjoyed this opportunity to get to know her and more about her experiences as she navigated life in a dual-mil marriage and about what she's up to these days. She is no longer in the military and she has a life coaching practice focused on se...

On the podcast today I share an episode that I did with life coach Zach Spafford from The Self Mastery Podcast about buffering. We talk about what buffering is, why our lower brain offers it to us as a solution to resolve discomfort, what we can do instead and how, and how all of this relates to military life particularly when it comes to the challenges, loneliness, and discomfort of deployments....

In this episode I tell you the story of the last 9 years rocking my side gig of selling toddler squeaky shoes. This business is my baby and I have enjoyed the ups and downs of growing it from nothing into what it is today.

Do you find yourself struggling with making healthy requests and setting healthy boundaries in your relationships? Listen to this episode to learn more about what it means to make requests of people around you from a place of wanting it without needing it to be happy (the frosting on the cupcake). Also, find out what it takes to set boundaries that aren't exhausting, overwhelming, and unsuccessful...

Meet Jenni Gaines, fellow military wife and also a life coach. She specializes in working with families dealing with teenage anorexia. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Jenni, hearing her insights and takeaways from her time as a military spouse, and learning more about her niche and all the ways she is helping people through this incredible challenge. Enjoy!

This episode is part 3 of a 3 part episode series where I read to you the children's book What Do You Do With an Idea? from the What You Do Matters Series written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom.  These books have such beautifully simple and powerful concepts in them and in this episode I talk about what it means to have a relationship with your ideas and dreams.

This episode is part 2 of a 3 part episode series where I read to you the children's book What Do You Do With a Chance? from the What You Do Matters Series written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom.  These books have such beautifully simple and powerful concepts in them. In this episode I discuss what it means to take a chance from a position of being willing to fail at that chance. The...

This episode is part 1 of a 3 part episode series where I read to you the children's book What Do You Do With a Problem from the What You Do Matters Series written by Kobi Yamada and illustrated by Mae Besom. These books have such beautiful concepts in them and in this episode I elaborate on how to use the model to solve any problem and what it looks like to attempt to solve problems with the "sol...

At the end of each of my episodes I invite you to book a free mini session with me to see if working with me would be a great fit for you. Last week I realized I have never explained to you what a mini-session is and it's time to fix that! Who here likes Costco samples? A mini-session is a lot like samples at Costco because Costco wants you to be able to try the food before you buy so that there i...

Today's podcast comes from a webinar that I recently created as an assignment for Life Coach School. I did a podcast episode on a similar topic last year, but this episode is a different take on it because the point of a webinar is to reach and teach an audience who hasn't heard of me or my podcast or the model or probably even life coaching. So it was a fun new challenge to teach it in a way that...

I feel so lucky to have an amazing former military spouse and member of the military, who is also a life coach, on my podcast today. Listen in to hear about Nicole Terwey's experiences during her time in the Navy and being dual military since her husband was also in the Navy. We also discuss her life coaching specialty which is undoing urges for permanent weight loss.

Having a protocol simply means deciding ahead of time how we want to show up in the world in any given category of our lives. We can have protocols for each aspect of our life such as: food, parenting, marriage, business, time, etc.

My husband, Brad Ellertson, guest co-hosts this episode with me as we share highlights from our 21 years together.

Are you spending a lot of time with family right now around the holidays? Do you have people staying with you from out of town who you love, but they're driving you crazy? Are you frustrated by the fact that you miss your loved ones when you're not with them, but then when you are together some of their behavior makes you want to run away? Listen to this episode to gain some awareness around why t...

The reality of military life is that we have to spend some really important days apart. One of those may be Christmas for you. In this episode I take a look at the "solutions" that your lower brain offers you to deal with these difficult times and the result that comes with that. This episode will help you gain some awareness around all of this and get a good look at the results you will get from...