The Self Awareness Journey Podcast

There is huge personal power in being in our flow. So, what expectations, results or mental chatter gets in the way of being highly in our flow state? And more importantly, how do we become aware of our own thoughts and feelings that push us in and out of that flow?

We all tell ourselves stories not because we like to deceive ourselves, but because it maintains our feelings of security and normalacy. Yet at some point, we no longer feel good in that story. What then?

People have different emotional reasons for wanting to be "right". Personality styles also impact the reasons why and how we then show up in our rightness. Yet, we don't always feel "good" by being the one who's right. Why is that?

From early childhood, we learned to express certain feelings, and to avoid "bad" feelings or emotions that we didn't like or knew others wouldn't approve of. Avoiding feelings within us creates a shadow or missed lesson that is there for us.  In an effort to hide shadows, where are we bringing false light into our lives today?

Most of us have experienced a moment, decision, or situation that’s rendered shocking perhaps even life changing news. But how we respond varies greatly. Some of us feel immediately victimized and wonder why me? Others begin a broader journey of discovery, wondering what must I do to turn this into something good? This episode explores one person’s story, leaving the grand question... what would I...

As humans, we recognize and connect with people in a multitude of ways. We notice obvious things like mannerisms, body language, facial expressions, colloquialisms, and styles. But there are more subtle and deeper ways too such as recognizing a person's energy, beliefs and values. As we develop over the years, understanding these points of recognition usually expand - how about for you?

It's fundamentally challenging to change and grow our own opinions and beliefs without the interaction of other people. Trusting another person to have deeper discussions about things that matter, helps us decipher what's most important to us and why. How often do we trust ourselves to have deeper discussions with those that think differently? Choosing to do so helps us develop our own a...

Ben Lampron, author of Jumpstart Your Future joins JJ and Melissa to talk about how young adults are not often aware personal finance, relationship building, and career development focuses. Ben highlights lessons learned, offers practical tips and tools, and teaches how self awareness for young people can make a massive difference in their ability to stand out from 'everybody else' and g...

Being an introvert or extrovert is not just about our impact and interaction with others. It's much more about how our feelings create an internal experience. This pod explores when introverts and extroverts feel uncomfortable, and how they naturally try to 'adjust' the interaction in very different ways.

What personal actions and energies do you choose before, during and after your vacation? Do you feel you've lost (or maybe never had) the ability to check out and truly recharge yourself? Today's conversation revolves around our core beliefs, work ethic, and the emotions we go through so we can vacation.

Picking the path of least resistance can simply be choosing thoughts and actions that feel good, rather than thoughts and actions that don't. Unfavorable thoughts cause us resistance and bad feelings, and even push us to avoid things we shouldn't. This pod helps us connect between what we think and the resulting emotional response. Further, it helps us understand how easy it is to actual...

There are many different ways to consider your own self worth. Depending on your perspective, you either compare yourself to what you are doing for others or what you are doing for yourself. This pod explores how we identify worth with ourselves and those around us.

JJ and Melissa speak frankly about personal biases, and how those biases are formed. They also dive into how we get to grow and adapt to new ways of being as we open ourselves to learn. This pod is not about judgement or politics. Rather, it's about learning WHAT we believe and HOW we can make ourselves more consciously aware of those beliefs.

In today's world, we physically and mentally switch gears from one project or person to another, multiple times during the day. Yet we often don't pay attention to how much energy is required emotionally to do such. And without that awareness, we often make mistakes that we feel bad about. With just a bit of practice, we can become aware of our own feelings to make consistently easier ch...

This conversation further explores a previous live event about advocating for ourselves. Advocation can be both proactive and reactive yet the energy between the two is vastly different. Proactive advocating is a confident assertion and reactive advocating can be laced with guilt, shame and anger.

JJ and Melissa reflect on how they each did on their commitment to do better 'self care' in the recent weeks.

Melissa and JJ talk about how we compare ourselves not just to other people and outside situations, but we also compare and contrast against a fantasy version of us that we have created. How does that help or hurt us?

JJ and Melissa have a great conversation about a book project that threatened to de-rail growth and other projects they were co-creating in The Self Awareness Journey.

Self care is something so easy to forget about, or to reclaim after you are really out of whack. JJ and Melissa have an authentic discussion about JJ's recent bout of feeling out of sorts, and his path back to centeredness.

JJ and Melissa talk about all of the habits we humans use without even realizing we are. Habits are both helpful and harmful, depending on what personal goals exist. How do we get to a place of being more aware of our habits and how we can alter them to suit us. We aren't actually in the 'habit' of taking periodic habit inventories, perhaps we should start!

JJ and Melissa discuss how we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to have control over outcomes we can't actually control, due to our deep sense of responsibility or obligation. It's helpful to understand our personal drivers that make us feel this trigger, and recognize how it then that causes us stress.

JJ and Melissa talk about the difference between abundance and scarcity in their lives, and how their thinking patterns bring them more of what they want.

In this conversation we discuss the new year and the hope we have for growing in self awareness.

In this episode we reflect on the dramatic year and outlooks on the new year.

In this episode we discuss the holidays and the emotions surrounding the holiday season.