ToddTalks--Spirit By Design: Your Weekly Survival Guide

Send us Fan Mail Make a change. Take action. Do the simple yet hard work. You will be immeasurable bleessed. I spent an amazing half hour interviewing Frank Filippone II. Frank is a multi-millionaire, uber successful businessman and he breaks down some of his tools for success that have helped him and his wife to succeed. We discuss the ups and downs of striving to improve and be a better version...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Rohn, the outstanding motivator and instructor, always said that in order for things to change, you must change.  Life isn't easy. Doing the same thing over and over again is the definition of insanity if you expect things to be different by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's not the way it works. In order for things to change, you must change.  I gi...

Send us Fan Mail You've been there. I've been there. You wake up mad, upset, or something just frustrates you and you let it ruin your whole day! Why does this happen? What can you do about it? That's the focus of today's episode. I delve into how your mind works and how to change your patterns of thought. Come take a ride and learn to control those pesky negative thoughts that...

Send us Fan Mail Learn to grow. Learn to find happiness in spite of whatever unfairness life throws at you because I am certain of one thing, life will be unfair. And that's OK! Here is a short simple discussion on how you can learn or teach yourself to be happier in the moment, with yourself and not dependent on others. Support the show You can reach me anytime at  email: tandrewsen.monat@gm...

Send us Fan Mail When you've had a setback, it is good to take a breath, pause, and move forward with renewed confidence. Today, Shane and I delve into restarts and how to improve. We discuss daily tasks that help move you forward toward the life you dream and desire. Take  a moment and listen to our ideas and banter and you can move forward in your life. Support the show You can reach me any...

Send us Fan Mail The smell of a new book is something to be sensed and felt organically.  When was the last time you sat down and read a book? If you're like me, you have on average 3-5 books that you are reading at any one time.  Books present knowledge and knowledge is power.  Books shape your world, or they can if you'll let them. Listen and learn why you should take up actual reading...

Send us Fan Mail Respect - R E S P E C T  - We all know the song, but do we live it. Getting respect actually requires effort on your part. You have to be respectful to get respect. You can't demand respect. You can demand obedience, but you can't demand respect. Respect is earned and I believe that respect is missing in a lot of places today. Today I speak about the need for and how to...

Send us Fan Mail Why are you listening to me?  That's the theme behind today's podcast. What do I have to offer? I'm screwed up. I make mistakes. I fight with my daughter. What do I have to offer? I am not a cookie cutter therapist. I know what I know and I know that you can succeed if you just keep getting up and keep trying. Get up. Get moving. Admit your faults. Keep trying to im...

Send us Fan Mail You have to know what you want in order to change. Even if it's just the basics, you have to be able to picture it because when you start to change Murphy is going to come calling. Murphy doesn't like change. He likes chaos. Because of this if you can't picture where you want to end up, Murphy will take charge and make life a living nightmare until you decide it isn...

Send us Fan Mail You've got a constant pain in your life. I do too. More people than you realize have constant pain of some sort in their life. How do you deal with it? How do you keep from being anxious all the time and depressed? It's not easy and I admit to failing at it quite often, but there are some techniques and tricks that do help me and I share them with you today! Support the...

Send us Fan Mail What do you feel when you hear someone else's good news? Do you feel strengthened or do you feel jealous? Are you able to honestly be excited for them? Or do you wish it was you and not them? We all want success. We all want recognition. However, learning to celebrate others' success is a huge step in our own leap towards success. Why is this? Listen to the episode to fi...

Send us Fan Mail You may have dreams and goals. You probably have desires. You have hopes and dreams...but if you don't show up, if you don't give it a go, if you don't make the attempt you'll never accomplish it. The first part of getting ahead and becoming the best version of you requires you to show up. I went to run a marathon once, but didn't finish....because I didn&...

Send us Fan Mail Shane and I get together on our monthly meetup to discuss something that plagues everybody at one time or another.  You've felt it, that feeling of not being up to the task, that feeling of being out of the loop, that feeling of hypocrisy or that feeling of being an imposter. It doesn't matter what the activity, business or family, personal or otherwise...you've fel...

Send us Fan Mail Deena Jean, podcast host of the new Dare to Dream Podcast, coming out 17 June 2021, shares her experiences working on many health challenges from eating disorders to PTSD to anxiety and depression. She uses her experience to help you overcome your own challenges, get the devil off your shoulder, and pick yourself up when you're falling down. This was a good interview and I ho...

Send us Fan Mail Pitcher throws the ball and you connect with a bat and the ball goes out of the park. An apple falls from a tree and lands on the ground. Cause and effect. The laws of nature. There are immutable laws that state that every action has consequences whether for good or ill. Understanding this law, and learning to apply it in your daily life, can have a dramatic effect on your life. Y...

Send us Fan Mail I cover most of Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret in this episode. If you haven't heard it, or listened to one of the greatest speeches on self-improvement, then this is one you don't want to miss. Most of the speech is read as written. There were parts that are missed or shortened for time. Bottom line: You become what you think about!!!! Support the show You...

Send us Fan Mail You've felt that gnawing in your gut as you're about to make that call, or not made the call. You've skipped asking the girl/guy out. You've missed out on job opportunities and amazing trips because of this. What is it? Rejection - Fear of rejection keeps us from so many things. It keeps your from risking your heart, mind, etc. Why? Because your perspective doe...

Send us Fan Mail Not listening to someone who's been there, done that, and gotten the T-shirt is a quick way to find yourself falling flat on your face. When you are attempting to grow and have big dreams, it is important to have a guide or mentor that understands your goals and dreams. Be careful as you select your chosen guide because they will have a dramatic effect on your life. Ultimatel...

Send us Fan Mail When life hits you in the face, how are you going to react? If you haven't learned how to deal with life and adapt, you'll have difficulties. After first contact with the enemy, plans become moot and the teams on the ground adapt or die. That's the point of this episode, learning to adapt to the challenges life will throw at you. There are several ways, means, tips...

Send us Fan Mail Resilience isn't just some nice term created by psychologists to say that you need to deal with your crap or you will suffer! Resilience is the art of dealing with your crap and not getting it kicked out of you! That's my fancy way of saying that all of you, all of us, go through setbacks, challenges, stressors, traumas, and difficulties in life, but how we deal with the...

Send us Fan Mail You've been there. You've waited until the last moment and are going to be late, then you start. Or you've neglected to begin and so you quit before doing anything. You have goals and dreams, but you either procrastinate or don't even bother beginning. Today, I help you to take that step, begin that process, work on that goal. Today is the first day of the rest...

Send us Fan Mail Your brain is an amazing machine. It takes information and can create an entire visual world inside to help develop your sense of self, propriety, societal constructs...everything. When you read you augment this capability and enhance it. Reading is becoming a lost art, but is so important for developing you into the person you want to become. Every successful person will tell you...

Send us Fan Mail You may or may not have seen my post on Facebook about my cousin, Tara Schutz untimely passing.  What you probably don't know is that she is the cousin I refer to in several episodes of my podcast.  She was so proud of the work she was doing in changing. Today, I explain some of her life challenges and the different person she became by "Doing the Work"! She hated d...

Send us Fan Mail Your subconscious runs 90 percent of all the operations of your life. When you were young you were imprinted with certain beliefs about yourself and life. When you notice that those tend towards the negative, this does not doom you to a negative life or outlook. You can change, if you so desire. You have to want to change. I go through how to recognize and overcome negativity in y...

Send us Fan Mail This episode topic comes from my having missed my morning routine today and been all over the place and dragging. When I accomplish my morning routine, I'm centered, relaxed and ready to take on the day. When I miss it, everything seems out of whack. If it seems that your life is always out of whack, it could be that you need to tweak your morning routine, or get a morning ro...