Still & Standing Podcast™ (formerly Redefine Your Struggle™) by, Amy McCann

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️Listen Here or WATCH Episode #13  ⚠️ Content Note This episode includes adult themes and an open, honest conversation about emotional health and crisis. Please listen with care and discretion. 📞 If you or someone you know is experiencing emotional distress, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988—available 24/7 for immediate, confidential support. You are not alon...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️Still & Standing Solo Episode #12 What if the key to peace of mind wasn’t the pause —but the preparation before it ? In this episode of Still & Standing™ , Amy McCann offers a powerful reframe for anyone navigating emotionally demanding, high-responsibility roles—whether in caregiving, leadership, entrepreneurship, or life transitions. Drawing from The Power of Now , ner...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️🎧Episode #11 Featuring my first guest: Ande Lyons!   👀 WATCH HERE  Radiant entrepreneur and host of the Don’t Be Caged By Your Age podcast, Ande Lyons, joins Amy McCann for a deeply personal conversation about empowered aging, emotional healing, and bold reinvention in midlife and beyond. Ande opens up about harnessing emotional freedom, navigating family estrangement with gra...

Send us Fan Mail 🌿 Still & Standing – Episode 10 🎙 A Return to Freedom Within: When the Freeze Response Isn’t a Mindset Problem What if the reason you're stuck isn’t a lack of discipline but a misunderstood freeze response? In this powerful episode, Amy invites you into the quiet, often unseen experience of emotional paralysis — the kind that mindset tools alone can’t touch. Drawing on h...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙 When Credentials Aren’t Enough and Longevity Loses Its Appeal Bonus Episode | Still & Standing Podcast Description: How do we avoid disappointment before it begins? In this short bonus episode, I explore two often-overlooked blind spots: assuming longevity equals success, and assuming credentials guarantee connection. Whether interviewing a long-married couple or hiring for...

Send us Fan Mail 🎧 Resources That Helped Guide This Episode: The Silence of Shunning: A Conversation With Kipling Williams Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-bullying/201309/the-silence-shunning-conversation-kipling-william What Is the Silent Treatment—and Is It Abuse? Medical News Today https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/silent-treatment "I Felt Dead Insi...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy this replay from 2022 !  WATCH this episode 👀 Meet Faisal Ensaun!  I am proud to be associated with our guest, Faisal Ensaun, a fellow Certified High Performance Coach. He is an immigrant from a war-torn country and has faced immense challenges, including overcoming addiction and bouts of deep personal despair.  Today, he stands as a beacon of success, fulfillment, and purp...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙 Season II-Episode #6: The Difference Between Strong and Still—It Changed My Life My journey to creating Still & Standing™ was shaped by a personal turning point that unfolded across more than two decades—redefining not just my dreams, but the spirit with which I chose to live them.  It began with my then-boyfriend’s spinal cord injury, continued through our years as husband...

Send us Fan Mail This is a requested audio by one of my community members!  Listen to my #1 parenting insights, crisis, and what surrender taught me while raising teenage twin daughters.  In this raw and heartfelt episode, I open up about the season of parenting I never expected—the teenage years that tested everything I thought I knew. From the painful grip of ego and silent shame to the power of...

Send us Fan Mail Episode #5  Title~ When the Authorities Knock:  Practicing Peace and Clarity Under Pressure My husband, Sean, and I originally conducted a private session with my MasterPeace-of-Mind™ students in 2023. I bring it to you in worldwide current relevance:  We live in a continued chapter with off-the-rails character smashing and social perceptions passed off as truth.  One challenge we...

Send us Fan Mail Inspiration is a primary principle in every masterpiece. What inspires this episode? This wisdom:  “You can sell anything to yourself.” ~Evy Poumpouras, former secret service agent and author of Beyond Bullet Proof When  Here, we walk through our inner cave to explore how to cultivate a masterPEACE presence in life beyond emotional complexities. When it comes to our healing journe...

Send us Fan Mail 🎉 Introductory Episode:  For leaders, communicators, and anyone navigating online visibility with integrity—this one’s for you. 👁️How visibility and goal-setting really relate to success and fulfillment. You don’t need to run a business to realize this: Your reactions, your stories, and the energy you carry are everyone you care about's business. 💡Turn on this daily focus—i...

Send us Fan Mail Today on Inner Cave Walk, I answer the question: 👉 “How do I create an emotional fitness program for myself, quickly?” Here are 3 powerful mind flex shifts that will change how you relate to pressure and performance—especially if you're tired of high-functioning emotional isolation. Want to be part of the Inner Vault Inbox Experience? JOIN HERE!

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Inner Cave Walk™ , a bonus sample journey of what my email subscribers experience! JOIN HERE to give a boost (not a blow up) to your inner world and your inbox experience! This location is where the visibility on the inside transforms into the wisdom we carry beyond bitter endings and into bold beginnings. In real-world practice, not just theory. In this space, you&apos...

Send us Fan Mail When life burns you and things grow cold in your relationships, what can we do to feel at peace, in the energy of joy, and in harmony with uncertainty? Here's a story about finding warmth at our family's cold Thanksgiving table many years ago. Go Here to contribute your flavor of wisdom to our Inner Peace Table!

Send us Fan Mail Back with another season of episodes--Thanks for listening! 🎃🩻For this Halloween month in America, here's some skeleton advice you may want to grip (not grasp) onto! This skeleton style of living puts us in a better form and relationship with the quality of TRUST! Ultimately, you'll experience greater peace of mind and a more harmonious forward motion. 🎧Whether you&ap...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is shared from the MasterPeace-of-Mind™ Behind-the-scenes BONUS content! The day the authorities knocked... How do we handle ourselves when a force we didn’t see coming appears and our fear and stress kick in? Sometimes what others think of us can work to tear us down. At other times, we may need to fight to defend ourselves and maintain our authentic identity and val...

Send us Fan Mail 👀Click to WATCH this episode: Mental Health Awareness Month may have passed, but the topic of Mental Health will always be a #1 topic that affects us all!* Please join my excellent guest Shaun Zetlin and me for another profound round of conversation in my Redefine Your Struggle podcast. Thank you for tuning in, sharing, and becoming part of the Perseverance Movement I'm buil...

Send us Fan Mail 🔗 VIDEO LINK to this episode How aware are we of others' struggles with mental health? Here are my thoughts--and something you might not know that I've struggled with! Cheers to higher awareness in Mental Health. Thanks in advance for sharing what you feel is helpful!

Send us Fan Mail 👀Click to WATCH this episode!  One day you have it all, and the next, it's gone. How do you reinvent yourself through the struggle of uncertainty? Today's guest, Rianna Hijlkema shares her journey forward in this Part 1, Episode 5, Redefine Your Struggle. ➡️For more on Amy McCann, visit her Website ➡️To be a Future Guest on RYS click this link ➡️For more on Rianna  http...

Send us Fan Mail 👀Click to WATCH this episode!  Welcome to Episode #5 PART II with my guest, Rianna Hijlkema! In PART 1 , Rianna shared how she reinvented herself after losing everything in her twenties. In this PART 2 segment ,  she shares her next phase in life and path toward her dream, only to discover things aren't going as planned. If you've ever clung to a dream so tightly that i...

Send us Fan Mail 👀Click here To WATCH this episode!   Tune in to meet my next remarkable guest, François de Neuville!  In 2018, François miraculously survived an earthquake and a tsunami in Indonesia. That day, he promised himself to live every single day of his life to the fullest and inspire others to do the same.  In this episode, François explains how he found the courage to turn trauma into...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy this mini-Podcast episode! Fuel up with me as we explore how to redefine a struggle through EXHAUSTION! Exhaustion from what? Stay tuned! After the show, click the links below to receive this month's goodies and ongoing healthy connection for a better life! CLICK HERE for a private link to explore the 5 Faces of Exhaustion  CLICK HERE for a  chance to participate in a c...

Send us Fan Mail Do you avoid negative emotions like the plague? How do you speak to your anxiety? Meet my next empowering guest Pavita Singh as she talks about the good, bad, and ugly parts of our emotional life. Pavita believes "having negative emotions is authentic, our raw human nature"…and that "to be a human is essentially to be a living contradiction." Tune in to hear se...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! To see this episode, WATCH HERE Please help me celebrate my new Podcast series, Redefine Your Struggle! Join special guest, author, and international speaker Shaun Zetlin, of Zetlin Fitness. Along with his work in physical health and behind those muscles, Shaun's expertise can help you get (and stay) emotionally fit!  You'll learn his 5 Mantras of Emotion...