The AJNashville Podcast

As an individual, you have to carry the weight of safety and readiness anywhere you go in order to preserve your life and loved ones around you through awareness of your surroundings. Most people are capable of carrying a firearm, so it is your sole responsibility to learn how to handle it properly for the sake of its purpose, if ever necessary to use it. If you are witness to a serious crime and...

When you think of your sense of freedom for yourself, is it a feeling that leaves you feeling truly untethered from the constraints and opinions of other people, or do you find yourself still striving for the acceptance from others in order to make yourself feel worthy? Your worth is only ever fully seen by you, and nobody else can place a value on you just because you can or cannot appease them i...

We should be very mindful of what our minds are consuming, what is being fed to them, and how those things influence our feelings and moods. We have to be aware of what we are watching or listening to on a consistent basis and remove sources that feed us too much negativity. There's a lot of things that we don't get the opportunity to control but we allow to impact how we think, how we f...

Isn't it great when you connect with someone on such a high level, you feel empowered to share your message or thought process with the world? Welcome to the mind behind the podcast, an episode dedicated to overcoming your history, your trauma, and persevering with a positive mindset. I expose ways I find to grow with forgiveness to my core and choose to rise above from who I once was by putt...

Many people see summer as a season of relaxation and fun, which is well deserved for all the hard work put in throughout the year and an opportune time to celebrate wins with our children while they are on summer break from school. It should still not be overlooked as a chance to evaluate how you are doing with goals you've set for yourself for the year as you reach the halfway mark. Are you...

What is it you expect from people, particularly people who provide their services to you? Are your expectations aligned with the reality of the situation? Are they exaggerated or fall short in your mind based on the possibility and actuality of what you should expect? Is the expectation that has been set something you decided to create yourself or something the provider has assured to be expected...

Today, we celebrate Memorial Day. Some of us see it as a free day off from work, an opportunity to scrub the old grill off and fire up the summer season with a blowout pool party. Others of us will work through the holiday as if it were just another typical Monday, grumbling about how everyone should have the day off, or worse, about how we should all be working as the day is "nothing special...

Sometimes, the simplest word is the hardest to say: "NO." We find ourselves torn between our own commitments and taking actions that please other people more than ourselves. We realize we are giving others more energy and time for their success than we do for ourselves on a personal and most deeply needed level. We are told to believe that the word "no" is bad, yet we can find...

Time, energy, mental space--call it what you want--all the pieces that we put into trying to validate, or feel validated, usually by trying to impress the wrong people. Especially when we're young, we tend to shift who we are on a core level in order to fit the perception of the people that we fell like we need to be validated from. The problem is this consistent morphing of who we are as an...

Sometimes a podcast episode is recorded with the intention of helping to inspire others to think or act a certain way through motivation. Other times it seems to end up being a part of the internal process of helping guide myself through thought processes and decision making in my own reality. Sometimes we find ourselves needing to say or hear it out loud in order to process it on a deeper level,...

So many people look at success relative to their own level of desire and commitment, choosing to only see the peak of the mountain that was their goal, choosing to overlook the effort it took to climb the mountain day by day. We don't just arrive to the top without trying, we have to train ourselves to acclimate to our new surroundings and overcome any trees that may fall in our path during o...

Thank you for all your support and confidence in me. I will forever remain grateful and humbled by the community that surrounds me. As long as we pour trust and faith into each other, we will succeed. All things are possible with hard work, motivation, and dedication. Our wildest dreams today could be old news yesterday if we continue to dream farther and push ourselves to make the impossible poss...

Sometimes we just have to go through the storm so that we can arrive on the other side of it that much faster. We can poke around about it and keep ourselves in a miserable situation longer than we need to, and often tend to do, if we're being completely honest here. Or sometimes we really just want to hunker down and refuse to move at all, leaving our future and fate in the winds of the stor...

Talking in depth about particular subjects can open up insight to other possibilities within your own mind, while also shedding light on other people's positions of where they stand. Most times, other people have issues because of their own individual past experiences. Rarely does it really have anything to do with you at that very moment when a heated debate may occur.  Reality is only a per...

Too often we are our own worst critics, denying ourselves a good sense of pride over our biggest accomplishments. We can tend to overlook our growth because it doesn't happen drastically overnight. That is why daily action and accomplishment in the small things adds up with consistency over time to reveal habits we build for ourselves that can either help serve us or hurt us. Allowing ourselv...

Your mindset is yours to sculpt and mold like clay into whatever shape you want it to be. Sometimes you will find a shape to take longer to create than another. Though as long as you continue to create, you will undoubtedly improve with time dedicated to your craft. Don't you still want to create your own art though in order for you to leave your imprint and feel authenticity in the masterpie...

They say that ignorance is bliss, but have you ever realized how much power comes with awareness instead? And power doesn't have to be some big bad thing, it simply exists because you exist. You are your own person and you have power within you, though it is up to you how you choose to step into it and ultimately use it. You have to be the one to stand up for your beliefs and let people know...

Every day comes and it goes, there's no question about that. But maybe you should be asking yourself if how you spend your time is most fruitful to your happiness. Do you set goals that will bring you true joy if you achieve them? How about on the way? Do you find yourself giving up on your own future just because it becomes challenging to obtain at times? Are you really ready to sink back in...

You ever find yourself giving off bad vibes you never meant to? Eliminate that shit by going to the source and cutting out the negativity at the roots. You have to protect your mind and space for yourself by getting rid of the things that suck away your energy. Remove yourself from the position that is causing problems and direct your mindset to be solution oriented for your own success.  You are...

How many of you allow yourself to have cheat days? And how many of you let your cheat day evolve into an excuse to break your habits every time it rolls around? Are you rigid in your discipline and steadfast to the time blocking you claim you strictly adhere to? Do you end up letting distractions come between you and the success you find yourself chasing day in and out, feeling like your efforts a...

When we start creating things, we have to start building out systems to help us perform tasks and improve our efficiency in workflow. The only "perfect" system is the living one that constantly gets modified and fed back into. If we instead constantly let things slide though, we find ourselves with yet another system that "didn't work" and another excuse for why we can&apo...

You ever have those supercharged days where you feel really proactive about your time and tasks? You know, those days that seem to leave a profound imprint on the way you do things in the future because you decided to kick ass TODAY. The mornings you feel ready to tackle the day ahead without grumpily dragging your feet through some imaginary mud you made in your own mind. Is this the day you&apos...

There's snow day like the present, am I right? You are granted the opportunity to spend quality time with the people you love when you are snowed in. You get the chance to build the moments that will later become the memories you all will look back on. Are you going to store it in your mind as an inconvenience or a lucky break for you and your family?  Today is the only day you are this exact...

As we sink and settle in to 2025, I hope you are still striving to take note of the goals you wish to accomplish in the future and the actions you are making in order to arrive there, each and every day, one at a time. I hope you are remembering to inventory the ups as well as the downs along the way, as both are equally important to be aware of the parts they play in making your dreams into your...

How many of your goals for the new year have you already committed to quitting on? Have you delivered on making it happen for yourself so far, starting on day 1 like you said you would? Did you decide to wait just 1 more day to start taking action to accomplish the goals you decided to set for yourself?  If you are committed to making your goal happen, do you remember why it is that you set the go...