The Modern Young Adult

IT’S EPISODE 200!! Gosh I got emotional in this one. Today on the podcast I share the one lesson I have to sum up almost 4 years what I have learned in my life and from doing this podcast. Enjoy! FREE 30 Minute Coaching Call If you’re in a rut, want to change your self worth, lack confidence, or feel unsure about your future, schedule a free coaching call with me. I promise it will change your lif...

We tend to hurry and want to be over with hard things. You just wish you were done with finals or at your graduation or already married or had kids, we all wish some things were over before they’ve begun. Today on the podcast I’m talking about time and patience and how we may be wishing for the wrong thing and that by doing so we are missing out on some things that might really be better. Also I r...

With only 2-3 weeks before you are DONE with school or work for a hopefully long holiday break, you might want to embrace the concept of locking in. Today on the podcast I talk about the trend that I’ve been seeing on Instagram and how people are sharing their struggle with getting stuff when they don’t want to and how I approach this myself and how you can hopefully get all you want accomplished...

It’s easy to take things in life for granted. Like fresh bread and jam, trees, Interstellar, all the things in life we think are beautiful. And also those things we don’t think are beautiful, the things we hate and despise and cause us to feel bad. Today on the podcast I want to help you feel grateful for ALL of it, to learn how to appreciate your personal human experience on this Earth so you don...

This last week I got to visit Salt Lake City for a conference and man oh man do I have some stories to share. Overall, I was struck with the concept of inevitability and how we might underestimate the time it takes for something to be realized, and yet it eventually is finished. Today on the podcast I relate my experiences to what you may be going through and help you consider how the concept of i...

Recently, I had an experience that reminded me of the joys of going the extra mile. I feel my relationship with kindness to strangers, friends, and just in general has evolved quite a bit and yet as always I feel like I’m always relearning what it means to be kind. So today on the podcast I wanted to talk about what it means to go the extra mile, why it feels good to be kind, and how we might eval...

You might disagree with the reality that is presented before you. Maybe because it’s post Election day and you don’t agree with who got elected. Or you’re frustrated with how you messed up in the past. Or you just wish people in your life were different. This is what I call “arguing with reality”. Today on the podcast we’re diving deep into this concept to provide you the peace and acceptance you...

You’ve probably experienced this. You have a desire to do something or are trying something new that you are excited about. And then something whispers, you can’t do this. You can’t succeed, you’re not good enough, you should just give up. I call this the Inner Critic or the voice of your brain trying to keep you from going after a goal. Today on the podcast I want to talk about this part of the h...

As we pursue goals, often we can get caught up in the idea of discipline or making things harder on ourselves for our good. This has a place. But sometimes we also get so hard on ourselves or we think our circumstances need to change so much that we find ourselves stuck in wishing things were better or that we were somewhere else away from it all. When in fact, we just need to make it lighter. Tod...

It’s not about feeling better. The self-improvement world can attract us because of the notion that we can make our life feel better than it actually is in this moment. Yet a lot of the time we get dissuaded because in the pursuit of what we want we end up feeling worse maybe then we started. That’s why today on the podcast I’m talking about our emotions, specifically when we take on goal and how...

You may be like me and feel shameful sometimes when you are “not doing” something and are being “unproductive”. Recently though, I’ve been pondering if this actually true to believe or if it’s even beneficial at all to think. Today on the podcast I’m talking about “non-doing” and the art of embracing space for the quiet, the relaxed, the not working moments of our life WITHOUT shame. Join me if yo...

With it now being October, the spooky season for me has begun! And that has brought to light some thoughts I had in the context of what’s haunting you? Not of course actual ghosts, but probably the most real life ghosts we have, our emotions! Today on the podcast I talk through my metaphor for emotions and how we think about our past/future to help your make peace with and accept these things that...

Recently, I was listening to a podcast that emphasized just how flexible our brain is in being able to change. Change the kinds of mental habits that impact our experience in the world. And there were so many good nuggets of wisdom that I found, I wanted to share some of those with you so that you might recognize what you can actually change in your life. Today on the podcast we’re talking about c...

You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be. This phrase expresses a faith in the future that can feel unsettling perhaps to allow, especially for brains that want to control and and offer evidence of this not being the case. Today on the podcast I want to talk about this faith for your future and how to grow it for yourself and get good at trusting yourself and knowing what is the right next step...

Last weekend I completed 29029 at Mont-Tremblant. It destroyed me. And it was totally worth it! Today on the podcast I want to recount what my experience was like as best as I can and then relate it to what you’re going through. We all have a mountain we are trying to climb in life and I believe the lessons that I learned from this experience will make such a difference in the challenges you have...

This week I’m going up a literal mountain. And it’s brought to mind the figurative mountains you have ahead of you when it comes to school, career, personal life, the trials and temptations you’re trying to overcome, or truly just the desire to become someone anew. To have a fresh start so to speak. And so today on the podcast, I wanted to speak to that fresh start and how to believe in it, how to...

Whether you’re starting college or you’re starting your thirties, making friends can feel scary. Maybe you’ve been telling yourself the story that you’re not good at talking to people and that it’s just something you have to live with. But did you know socializing is a skill, not an ability?! Today on the podcast I’m talking about how we can get better at making friends feel more comfortable and h...

With the start of a new semester of college upon us, you’re probably getting excited at what opportunities await you. Yet you also know there’s busyness and anxiety and decision dread to accompany all of this and you may be wondering how you’re going to be able to balance it all. Today on the podcast I want to throw the idea of balance out and approach our time and schedule and desires from the co...

Who are you becoming? We are often posed this sort of question behind the questions of which college you go to, what major you pursue, what career you go after, what hobbies you take, and what relationships you create. But are you and I being intentional about this quest of becoming? Today on the podcast I want to dive into the nature of becoming, asking ourselves who we are, and hitting home the...

When we go through emotionally difficult experiences, we tend to keep everything inside and not let it out. There are many reasons for this, but ultimately I believe we can do ourselves a great favor in opening up about our experiences and talking about it, rather than keeping it inside. Today on the podcast, I’m talking about being open with our emotions, talking about the things that are hard fo...

Meet my friend Joe Cheney. Today on the podcast we are talking about the affirmations or “oaths” we speak to ourselves and the power they can be in our lives. Joe takes us through his own personal experience with affirmations, the initial distrust and how he grew little by little to finally seeing results by changing the way he communicated with himself.  Joe’s Links: YouTube: http://www.youtube.c...

You may feel like giving up when it comes to your dreams. I know I am. And so I want to talk about. This isn’t a debby downer episode, this is an episode to make you feel lighter and remind you that the way you feel MAKES SENSE. Today on the podcast I dive into when we feel like giving up and the steps to take to help us through it and remind ourselves about what progress truly is. Oh and I bring...

Have you seen Inside Out 2 yet? I hopefully won’t be spoiling the movie, but I was really struck with how it dealt with repressed emotions and began to reflect on how I might still be doing that even after all the work I’ve done coaching myself. So now I want to talk about it. Today on the podcast I dive into why we repress our emotions, what kind of effects this has upon us, and how to baby step...

Don’t count the seconds because every second counts (If you’ve seen The Bear, you know what I’m talking about). As human beings, we are limited in the time we are here on Earth as well as there are limits to how long stages of life last such as our college days. And it can be so easy to worry about those days running out as well as running out of time and feeling behind when it comes to achieving...

CHANGE IS POSSIBLE. I feel this is something I have to remind myself all the time. Recently, I’m on track again with some big goals and I figure you are too. Today on the podcast, I wanted to offer you and I some guidance on what to do when we have big desires for change and how to actually get the thing we want when half the time we feel like we can’t actually change. And you may be surprised at...