The Nancy Levin Show

In this episode of Your Permission Prescription, listen in as I talk with six of my certified Levin Life coaches about their experiences before, during, and after Levin Life Coach Academy. Learn what led each of them to enroll in LLCA, how it changed their lives, both personally and professionally, as well as how they've upleveled their business. If you're already a coach, considering becoming a c...

In today's episode of Your Permission Prescription Podcast, I talk about Levin Life Coach Academy, my life coach training and certification program. I share 3 reasons why LLCA may be right for you AND 3 reasons it's not. I also talk about WHY I created LLCA and what sets it apart from other life coach certification programs out there. If you're interested in LLCA check out myFREE workshop - Your R...

Pop the champagne, because my new book—The Art of Change: 8 Weeks to Making a Meaningful Shift in Your Life—is here! This guided journal contains my proven roadmap to making choices and taking action in support of the vision you desire. So in today's episode, I take the time to explain some of the book's overarching concepts and how it's designed to support you to live life on your own terms, and...

My sixth book, The Art of Change, comes out next week. The Art of Change is a guided journal and proven roadmap for making the choices and taking the actions to support the vision and change you desire in your life. It's completely different from anything I've ever written, and as a lifelong journaler, it's been my dream come true to create this journal for you. In this episode I share a bit about...

I used to see myself as an author and a coach, until Karen Sergeant encouraged me to step into the role of CEO. As a result, I'm no longer a bottleneck in my own business—plus, I have more time to do the most important tasks that only I can do. Karen is full of amazing advice like this. She worked in Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom, then worked in counterterrorism for years after 9/11. Toda...

In today's episode, I talk with Jude Charles. As a documentary producer, he's produced stories for the likes of Google, Steve Harvey, and dozens of visionary CEOs. He's also the author of Dramatic Demonstration, where he lays out his roadmap to leveraging compelling stories to grow your business. Together, we talk about how he got started as a business owner, the things he looks for in a compellin...

Do you feel the sting of an insult more powerfully than you feel the joy of praise? Are you constantly scanning for what's wrong, instead of what's right? If so, you may be experiencing the negativity bias—the psychological phenomenon that causes negative experiences to have a greater impact on our brains than positive or neutral ones. Negativity bias affects our lives in so many sneaky ways—inclu...

In today's unscripted live coaching episode, I coach Jennifer about relationships, and more specifically, how it feels to be happily single in middle age after a lifetime of being in serious romantic relationships. Is it better to push yourself back into dating and gain the safety and companionship of a partner—at the risk of losing yourself? Or stay single and live a creatively fulfilling life, a...

For over eight years now, I've run my own business as a coach, author, and  entrepreneur. And over those years, I've learned a lot about time—how to manage it, how to stretch it, and how to make the most of it while getting the most important things done as efficiently as possible. In today's episode, I share what I've learned. I'll explain the Pomodoro Technique, Parkinson's Law, why I don't sepa...

In today's episode, I do a deep dive into the dynamics that lead to disconnection and codependency in relationships. There's a common dynamic in relationships where one partner tends to become distant, and the other becomes "clingy". This is fairly common, if not necessarily healthy. Codependency takes things a step further. It's when we allow our partner's behaviors to determine our choices, acti...

Why does our society still have so much disdain for women who choose not to have children? And more to the point, how should you approach this decision in your life if you're feeling judged for wanting a child-free life? That's the subject of today's episode with Therese Shechter, the award-winning filmmaker and Director, Producer, and Writer of the film, "My So-called Selfish Life: A New Document...

I've coined something I call the Transformation Equation, which is: Change = Vision + Choice + Action. It sounds simple, but when you learn to apply this concept to your life, it will work wonders. And in today's episode you get to hear it in action as you listen in on several real live coaching sessions. First we talk about how to avoid putting your own needs on the backburner when you're stuck i...

It's official: the Your Permission Prescription Podcast is now 1 year old! To celebrate our anniversary and examine how far we've come, I've invited my COO Kylie Kwon. Kylie has had a significant impact on my business and my life, and vice-versa. When I met Kylie, she was a stay-at-home mom collecting certifications, attempting to get her coaching business up and running. She hadn't worked a job i...

In today's episode, I talk about the second step in my "Jump . . . And Your Life Will Appear" book and coaching program: tell the truth to someone safe. When we withhold a secret or a difficult truth, it turns us into a human pressure cooker. But when you share that truth with another person, it's like hitting the "release" button. It lets the steam out. The trick, of course, is to share that trut...

Do you want to keep everybody happy all the time? Do you blame yourself for things that aren't your fault? Take on more tasks than you can handle? If so, you might be a people pleaser—and today's episode is for you. Here's the first thing to know: people pleasing tendencies are often a symptom of a deeper issue, such as issues with self-worth or setting boundaries. But when you put others first, y...

In today's episode, I explore the topics of mistakes, collaboration, and self-worth. As a former people pleaser, I used to be a perfectionist. Maybe you can relate. And as a perfectionist, my sense of self-worth was wrapped up in my achievements. It was so bad that at one point, as the Event Director at Hay House, my team gave me a nickname: Bru (short for Brujita), which means "little witch" in S...

You may not like it. You may not even realize it. But if you're an online coach or entrepreneur of any kind, you need legal protection for your business. Period. And today's guest, Sam Vander Wielen, started a successful online business of her own helping people to do just that. In today's episode, you'll learn about Sam's fascinating journey from lawyer to health coach to highly successful entrep...

Today's episode is a live and unscripted coaching session with two Levin Life Coach Academy students and soon-to-be coaches, Laura and Annette. Laura and I talk about giving yourself permission for your life to be enough, about freeing yourself from the chokehold of long-held limiting beliefs, and about what to do when you're afraid of pouring your heart into something and no one will like it. Ann...

Most of us know our basic astrological sign and what it says about our personality, but far fewer people realize the significance of our Chiron—our core wound—and how an understanding of it can help us to find relief from our deepest sources of pain and suffering. Today I talk with Lisa Tahir, psychotherapist and founder of Psychoastrology, about her unique therapeutic approach that lives at the i...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed or even oppressed by all the "shoulds" in your life? You should order the salad, you should work out today, you should work late on that project, you should clean the house, you should, you should, you should. Well, according to today's guest—rock-and-roll roadie turned "joyologist" Tricia Huffman—all those "shoulds" are causing nothing but mayhem and misery in our liv...

When most of us think about wellness, we automatically go to the physical. The tangible. Things like food. Are you getting enough riboflavin? Are you getting enough omega-3 fatty acids? And that's important, sure. But many people end up focusing on minutiae to the point that they neglect the most important formless cornerstones of health: emotional well-being, mental health, spiritual growth. In t...

Many people assume the job of a life coach is to give advice. But there's a problem with this approach. One of the fundamentals of any coaching relationship is that the client is always the expert on themselves. This means that the coach can't just show up with all the answers. Instead, their real job is to help guide the client to find their own inner wisdom and hold them accountable to the commi...

Francis Nayan has a pretty incredible story. From the age of seven, he always knew he wanted to travel and see the world. But when he fell into a heroin addiction that led to an overdose, he felt as if all his dreams would never be more than that—dreams. But he managed to bounce back from rock bottom and reinvent himself as a world-traveling digital nomad. I think we can all take lessons from his...

Do you find yourself taking responsibility for other people's unhappiness? Do you often feel like it's your job to fix things whenever someone else is dissatisfied or uncomfortable? In this episode, I coach Jen, a student in my Levin Life Coach Academy who's getting certified as a life coach. She has a tendency to put herself in a place of suffering in order to make others feel better. It's one of...

Intimate relationships are such a vital part of our lives, and yet from time to time we all struggle to maintain an honest, trusting relationship with our partner. I know I did. I was married many years ago, and as a people-pleaser, I suppressed my personal wants and needs in order to fulfill my husband's. If this is an issue for you, you've got to listen to today's episode with Alexandra Stockwel...