The Kelsey Mercer Podcast

Claudia Bement is an executive coach, mentor, and friend with over 30 years of experience coaching women leaders. She specializes in helping women develop their vision and lead from a place of deep inner and outer alignment. Trained in somatics, Claudia focuses on helping leaders move past burnout by getting out of their heads and into their bodies to navigate today's tumultuous world.

Your genetic blueprint... doesn't have to be your reality. Sarica and Kelsey discuss how to move away from a "standardized" view of health and toward a personalized path that respects individual ancestry, blood type, and the body's internal signals. This episode serves as a reminder that healing begins with awareness and intuition rather than just following the latest health tren...

Levi Mercer is an entrepreneur and outdoorsman who, at just 18 years old, co-operates a multi-seven-figure business alongside his brothers. Raised as the third of six children in a faith-driven home, Levi’s "old soul" perspective was forged through a unique unschooled education that traded traditional classrooms for real-world experience in the woods and on hunting ranches. He specialize...

Dr. Christina Hibbert is a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and speaker. She is a survivor of breast cancer and chronic illness and a mother of six. Her work focuses on mental and emotional health, grief, and overcoming adversity. https://kelseymercer.com/podcast/dr-c... In this episode, Kelsey Mercer and Dr. Christina Hibbert discuss...The Power of GrowthDr. Hibbert shares her book, "...

If you’re married to someone who serves your community or your country, you know what it’s like to sacrifice life as normal for the benefit of those around you. As a fire wife for nearly 25 years, I know firsthand what it looks like to put your priorities, desires and wishes for life aside for the demand of a job! This has been our life, but the journey, though hard has formed us in so many ways t...

God teaches us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. The only day were really given is this day, but even more than that, is this moment.. What would it look like to see your life as a gift and to appreciate each breath as the moment that reminds us of what is truly most important in our pursuit of purpose and happiness? I believe regret and grief are some of the greatest teachers...

Discover how we will look at life’s greatest pillars of faith, family, fitness, fun and focus with the M3 methodology approach while learning, growing and living in the messy to to reveal the greatest message of the miraculous mystery of the divine story of purpose and destiny God has given each of us. Kelsey will bring real life stories of raising a family of six kids, being a wife of over 25 yea...

On this week's podcast we are joined by our 3 teenage boys to share some real life experiences during a recent adventure guiding coues deer hunts for 3 weeks in Mexico with their dad, Preston Mercer and guide, Jay Scott Outdoors.  They share some insight into what life looks and feels like as they learn to function as young men when put to a variety of tests in challenging situations.  T...

Did you ever consider the very fact that our reliability on God for everything including our next breath proves EGO is bogus? Have you ever thought about how God can rely on you- are you consistently reliable to replicate the same results of good or bad functioning in life, work, relationships? How do people rely on your abilities to improve their life, function and prosperity? Who and what are YO...

The choice is ours… To stay in the shame of regret and guilt or ask for wisdom to design and define our life from the lessons learned.  The mindset that transforms regret and guilt into action and accountability comes from acknowledging where we are on the journey with a commitment to where we are going. In this podcast I share practical ways I’ve learned how to use regret as a reset to learn...

It’s January and the familiar, sometimes rote and most often times sincere wishes of a  “Happy New Year”  are exchanged.  Yet after our epic 2020, when we are honest many of us are wondering will it be a Happy or A Happy Crappy New Year?  Can I really feel happy?  If I felt “happy” would everything be better?  Preston and I jump right in and share why we are convinced...

"The only real mistake is the one in which we learn nothing. Peace with the past allows provision for your future.  Thank the teachers of your past no matter how hard the lessons were. Benefits of Focus Clarity- Filter for decisions- To have focus you must have discipline- dis. Is a verb because it leads you to do what you don’t feel like doing. Flow state- increases feelings of satisfaction...

What we’ve learned about ourselves, others, our world and LIFE in 2020 Ultimately the process is progress. I really like being at home Our life was covid 19 before it was One day at a time- one step at a time Control is an illusion. -The risk of losing it all is still ok - Daily bread is enough Relationships are vital/communication is crucial- Media is the monster Breathe Death has always been cer...

13 years later... . For years I couldn’t sleep without checking on our 3rd son Levi, to make sure he was still breathing and alive.  Hear the story of how when Levi at only 19 days old quit breathing multiple times, would fight for every breath and ultimately overcome RSV after a week in ICU at Phoenix Children's Hospital. How God had orchestrated every detail which made it possible for us to...

Hunting with the Mercer clan isn’t your everyday adventure!  Preston and I discuss what is involved in the hunting logistics, the family dynamics and the formation of boys becoming men through challenge. Hear the stories behind hunting, harvesting and helping get the job done with Preston Mercer. Hunts mentioned Corabelle Mercer- deer Colden Mercer - deer and elk Levi- deer Garrett- deer and...

Growing up as an only daughter of a United States Marine offers its own unique opportunities for discipline, duty and determination.  Growing up with a Vietnam Vet and the reality of PTSD offers another whole world that bounces between chaos, compassion and curiosity in seconds.  Meet Jim Bennett; my dad, a United States Marine Corporal who at 18, was drafted to fight the Vietnam War .  After 1 ye...

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself.  Each day has enough trouble of its own- Matthew 6:25-34 Other Verses on Anxiety: Cast all your Anxiety on Him because he cares for you.  1 Pet 5:7 Do not...

Many of us spend most of our life trying to discover who we are,  no less defining who we are with a title.  One of the most challenging questions I have to answer is defining what I do.  Although I am a fitness instructor I find myself going against the grain of the industry's messaging and transforming what people believe.   Where traditional fitness focuses on weight/di...

If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved.  For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.  As the scriptures say, ANYONE who trusts in him will never be put to shame.   In this episode we share our own roots of faith and the freedom that God is...

With our world in a state of mass destruction and chaos, hear first hand what it's like to be on the line and in the mind of a Wildland Firefighter! Meet, Preston Mercer,  a wildland firefighter for almost 25 years, from his first job in high school as a hot shot, to repelling into fires from a helicopter when we met and now in full operations and management,   he has truly liv...

A powerful conversation through life and death from the eyes of a grandchild, daughter and spouse. It was only 25 years ago some days and a life time others, when Kelsey at a tender age of 16 had to decide with her father to pull the "life plug" and say good bye to her mom at only 37 years old. After a shocking struggle with chicken pox, turned pneumonia, the Good Lord called her home.  Join...

Along the journey of this beautiful life, the reality is, scars often teach us more than trophies, however each serves its purpose in the ultimate plan when we understand our purpose in the process. We discuss how in the process we discover who we are and what we are made of in both the trials and trophies, although each teacher is unique in how we move from the internal and external challenges of...

On this Father Day,  we share a deep discussion about the journey we have with our fathers, as a father and the relationship men and women share with their earthly father and heavenly father.  Along the journey of earning our PHD of life, one of the most important aspects is our relationships with others; our family, friends, and co-workers. In our discussion we highlight the D in PHD as...

Preston and I open the vaults of our hearts to expose times when we have experienced great challenges and even loss in the journey of processing  pain in order to find the greater purpose in the plan.   The real temptation in life's lessons are to run and hide, face the hard or become "hard" or find peace in the promise of hope.  In every big and even little test we can ask ourselve...

Does Pilates help with weight loss?  Short answer - Yes, Long Answer- Yes, Life Answer- Yes Learn why and how "weight loss" is about a Mindset of not "loosing" but gaining your life back.  It's not just about exercise and eating; its about enjoying a vibrant, healthy and energetic life.  Nothing tastes as good as feeling good!  No one wants to be a "looser", we are here to over...